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CURIOSITIES AND GALANTERIES. 18th-century ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
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109
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CURIOSITIES AND GALANTERIES. 18th-century ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
CURIOSITIES AND GALANTERIES.
18th-century ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
A collection of 6 works in 7 volumes.
Description:
-[DORAT]. Mes fantaisies. Third edition.
Published at The Hague and available in Paris, Delalain, 1770.
In-8, 363-(1) pp., red half-shagreen with corner pieces (slight scattered foxing).
Illustrated with a title-frontispiece page, a vignette on the title page, a running head and a tailpiece, all engraved on copper by de Longueil and E. de Ghendt after Charles Eisen.
-DORAT. Mes Nouveaux torts…
Amsterdam and Paris: Delalain, 1775. 8vo, later binding in red half-shagreen with corner pieces.
-EISEN. PEZAY (Marquis de). Zélis au bain, a poem in four cantos.
Paris, J. Lemonnyer, 1883. 8vo, orange half-maroquin with Bradel-style corners. Silver-threaded silk cover with etching preserved.
-GRÉCOURT, Jean-Baptiste Willart de. Selected Works of Grécourt, preceded by historical and critical remarks on the genre of poetry to which he belongs.
Paris, Paulin, 1833. 8vo, (2) folios, 147 pp., contemporary fawn morocco.
A collection of licentious pieces by the Abbé de Grécourt. The illustrations consist of 10 plates enhanced with watercolour and numerous vignettes within the text.
Provenance: Charles Cousin (1822?–1894).
-LETTERS AND LOVE EPISTLES of Heloise and Abelard.
London, 1780. 2 volumes in-18, 2 portraits, 234 pp. + 228 pp., red morocco binding of slightly later date (slight scuffing to the binding, a few foxing spots).
-ROMANTIC AND LITERARY RARITIES *Entre Chien et Loup*.
Based on the Hamburg edition, 1809. In-8, brown half-morocco.
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