Gros & Delettrez
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[MEDICINE and CURIOSITIES. 18th century].
See original version (French)
85
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[MEDICINE and CURIOSITIES. 18th century].
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
[MEDICINE and CURIOSITIES. 18th century].
LOT OF 18TH-CENTURY BOOKS ON CURIOSITIES AND MEDICINE.
-BORDELON or COTOLONDI.
The Nameless Book. Divided into five dialogues.
Paris: published by Michel Brunet at the Mercure Galant, 1695.
With a frontispiece depicting a harlequin wearing a black mask: ‘Castigat ridendo mores’ (He corrects morals by laughing at them.)
A collection of gossip and anecdotes from the world of French theatre and ‘la vie galante’ in Toulouse, Avignon and Montpellier, as well as in Italy and Spain.
The privilege indicates that it was granted to Michel Brunet (a bookseller in Paris), who shared it with Hilaire Baritel (of Lyon), who in turn shared it with ‘Sieur Plaignard and the said Sieur Baudet [sic]’. All editions from 1695 are rare
Printed in Paris by Michel Brunet, there were also co-editions or shared distributions in the provinces (such as in Lyon by Antoine Boudet or Hilaire Baritel
An ink annotation from the period
‘A new volume is currently being sold, entitled *Le Livre sans nom* (The Nameless Book), in much the same style as *Arliquiniana*, and it seems to be enjoying even greater success, not only because of the short stories it contains, but also because it is filled with a great many verses, and above all with some odes translated from or modelled on Horace, which one reads with pleasure”
Duhamel’s gilt monogram on the front cover (?) EFVD; front cover adorned with a beautiful gilt monogram ‘E.F.V.D.’ surrounded by a palm-and-crown motif; unidentified decorated ribbed spine
-The Society of the Franc-Farters. Liberty is our motto. The ART of farting.
Frontispiece engraved in black on copper, depicting the Bastille, whose cannons are c… (figures facing right).
2nd edition?
(2)-109-216 pp
To the Count of Vent Sec et Bruyant, Lord of Pet-en-ville
Peti in--12, finely grained fawn calfskin, worn headbands, smooth spine decorated with red morocco
-3 antique works on onanism and venereal diseases.
Contemporary binding.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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