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434 - Le chien aprés les m[oines]. In-12: [2]-30 pp.
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Estimate €120 - €150
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Le chien aprés les m[oines]. In-12: [2]-30 pp. (browned, russet, tears restored without loss on p. 19, small hole with burn without affecting the text on p. 23, worm hole on margins). - Rare first edition of this joyous satire attributed to Mirabeau, which in particular and in great detail pokes fun at the carnal wanderings of the "très-revérends pères": "Des égrillards habiles au pipeau,/ Sçavans dans l'art du plus fin m[aquereau] [mot restitué à la main dans le texte],/ Vrais excroqueurs du plus fier pucelage [...]". - Ref. Barbier I:5684. - BGL I:571. - Conlon 84/1539. - Bound after : 1 [Poullin de Lumina, Étienne-Joseph] - Histoire de l'etablissement des moines mendiants ; ou on traite de l'origine des moines, de leur premiere fveur, de leur relâchement, de leur décadence, de leurs différentes réformes jusqu'à S. Dominique & S. François [...]. Avignon, aux dépens des libraires associés, 1767 (small holes in the title without affecting the text due to the ink of the ms, a few light russets). First edition of this essay sometimes attributed to D'Alembert. Ref. Barbier II:684. - Cioranescu 51200. Prov. G. Thibault (ms. on title). - 2 Antimony. Nos numerus sumus & fruges consumere natis. S.l., s.n., [c. 1762]. (Some stains). Rare satirical pamphlet in verse preceded by an "Epitre aux êtres pensants" and followed by notes. Ornamented with a gr. front on copper showing a group of monks feasting and welcoming a young woman to their august assembly. Ref. BnF. - Not in Barbier, Conlon.
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Auction time 06/25/2026 at 1:00 PM
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