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82 - [FLEURET (Fernand)]. *Le Carquois du sieur Louvigné du Dézer…
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Estimate €500 - €600
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[FLEURET (Fernand)]. *Le Carquois du sieur Louvigné du Dézert, Rouennois*, based on fragments of an unpublished manuscript, and preceded by a biography of the author by his son; with a foreword and notes. London [Paris], Katie Kings [Charles Renaudie for the author], 1912. Small 8vo, light brown half-maroquin, smooth spine, cover and spine, untrimmed (Chalvet). First edition of this collection of erotic poems attributed to a 17th-century libertine, which is in fact a literary hoax: a pastiche by the scholar Fernand Fleuret. One of 50 copies printed on laid paper in the original format, the only large-format paper, numbered and initialled by the author, and featuring a signed autograph dedication. Cover slightly sun-faded. Pia, 168 – Dutel, no. 120.
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About the sale Eros & Thanatos – Selected extracts from the L-D S library
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Auction time 10/07/2026 at 2:00 PM
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