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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme - Le Pornographe, ou idé…
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748
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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme - Le Pornographe, ou idé…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme - Le Pornographe, ou idées d'un honnête-homme sur un projet de règlement pour les prostituées, Propre à prévenir les Malheurs qu'occasionne le Publicisme des Femmes: avec des Notes historiques et justificatives. London, Jean Nourse, The Hague, Gosse junior, 1770. In-8, XII, 492 pp, (4) ff. interspersed between pp. 476 and 477, separate pagination for the Lit-de-justice d'amour (1 to 88) but forming pages 389 to 476 of the work, half contemporary fawn, spine ribbed and decorated, headpieces remain, hinges partly split.
CHILDS 213 n°4 and 5. Under the vintage 1770, edition unknown to Rives Childs, who describes at this date an edition in all respects conforming except for the addition of pages 477-492 (n°4). To his knowledge, they only appear in an edition dated 1776 (no. 5). Second edition of Le Pornographe, partly original. It contains a new pamphlet with a separate title: Lit-de-justice d'amour, ou le code de Cythère. Erotopolis, Harpocrates, l'an du monde 7776 (pag. 1 à 88) - and Supplément au Pornographe et Suite de la note [Q] (pag. 477 à 492). (PA)
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