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Bidding Information
Lot #    4956
Auction End Date    6/25/2003 1:32:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Eliezer y Nephtaly
Author    [Unrecorded?] Jean Pierre Claris de Florian
City    Philadelphia
Publisher    Guillermo Stavely
Publication Date    1826
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [5], 8-93 p., 8 vo., 171:100 mm., light staining. A good copy bound in later cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    No copy in NYPL, Library of Congress, Copac (British Libraries).
          
Detailed
Description		    Spanish translation of the original Frence by Felix Megia.

Title: Eliezer Y Nephtaly, poema en quatro cantos, traducido del Hebreo al Frances por Mr. Florian, y puesto en verso espanol por Felix Megia...
          
Paragraph 2    Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755—1794), French poet and romance writer, was born on the 6th of March 1755 at near Sauve. His mother, a Spanish lady named Gilette de Salgues, died when he was quite a child. His uncle and guardian, the marquis of Flonian, who had married a niece of Voltaire, introduced him at Ferney and in 1768 he became page at Anet in the household of the duke of Penthiovre, who remained his friend throughout his life. Having studied for some time at the artillery school at Bapaume he obtained from his patron a captain’s commission in a dragoon regiment, and in this capacity it is said he displayed a boisterous behaviour quite incongruous with the gentle, meditative character of his works. On the outbreak of the French Revolution he retired to’ Sceaux, but he was soon discovered and imprisoned; and though his imprisonment was short he survived his release only a few months, dying on the 13th of September 1794. To modern readers, Florian is chiefly known as the author of pretty fables well suited as reading for the young, but his contemporaries praised him also for his poetical and pastoral novels. He was the Boucher and the Watteau of the literature of the eighteenth century and it is remarkable that some of his graceful and delicate works were written in the midst of the Revolution.
          
Reference
Description		    Not in Singerman or Rosenbach
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
Characteristic
Language:    Spanish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica