GRAFFIGNY [Françoise Isembourg d'Happoncourt] - Letters of a Peruvian. Translated by J. P. [= Jacek Przybylski]....

GRAFFIGNY [Françoise Isembourg d'Happoncourt] - Letters of a Peruvian. Translated by J. P. [= Jacek Przybylski]. In Warsaw, 1784. by Peter Dufour, Court Consigliere, Drukarz J.K. Mci and Director of the Printing House of the P. Rycerskiey School. 8, p. [8], XII, 283. card opr. of period.
E. 17, 322. spine wrapped with paper, small trace of woodworm on the endpapers, in the spine, minor stains. Stamp. (Axe crest). Own signature on the back pastedown: Wincenty Zawadzki. From the printer's preface: "This is a dialogic Romance written with delicacy, full of things smoothly published and showing that the writer knew how to feel them [...]. According to the opinion of the scholars we have advised, the translator has rendered the beauties of the original very well: you can see there the difference of beautiful descriptions, vivid, tender images." At the end there is a handwritten note from the period: "This kind of feeling is called platonic love, beautiful, moral, respectable and beautiful. But in spite of its allure and glory in Parnassus, what use is it?".