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469 - 5 bound libertine works. In-8° and in-12.
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Estimate €450 - €600
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5 bound libertine works. In-8° and in-12. - 1. La morale des sens ou L'homme du siècle. Extract from the Memoirs of M. le chevalier de Barville written by M. M... D.M. [...]. Brussels, Gay & Doucé, 1882. Bradel red half-maroquin with corners signed L. Pouillet, covers cons. Edition augmented by a bibliographical note by Paul Lacroix. Adorned with a frontispiece by J. Chauvet. 1/500 numbered copies (no. 357). Enriched with: a. Original colour sketch of the front. with aut. sign. of the artist. - b-c. 2 states of the front. before the letter with artist's aut. signature; in sepia. Ref Pia 960. - 2 Le libertin de qualité, ou Confidences d'un prisonnier au chateau de Vincennes [...]. À Stamboul, de l'imprimerie des Odalisques, 1784 (Inc. of the plates, pale russ. to the title). Large margins, without the frontispiece and the 7 plates. Second edition (orig. under title "Ma conversion": London, 1783). Prov. Kaldewey Antiquariat, Munich (bookseller's etiquette). - 3 Erotika Biblion [...]. Edition revised and corrected on the original edition of 1783 and on the edition of the year IX [...]. Brux, Gay et Doucé, 1881 (Rouss. to false-title, front. and title). Lemon half morocco with corners signed J. Schavye (rubs to spine and corners). Ill. with a front. by J. Chauvet etched and printed in bistre on laid paper. Edition of 500 copies (no. 276). Prov. Alexandre Rombaut (ex-libris). - 4 Le rideau levé ou L'éducation de Laure. Au Palais sous les robes, 1882 [Brux. ?, Brancart or Gay & Doucé ?]. 2 t. in 1 vol. Unlisted edition of this famous erotic novel (orig.: 1786). Unlike those listed by Pia and Dutel at the same address and date (1 vol.: 220 pp.), ours is in 2 vols. with a fleuron on the title depicting the heads of a nymph and a faun kissing (attributed by Dutel to both Brancart and Gay & Doucé) and without the additional title "Édition revue sur celle originale de 1786". Unjustified edition on laid paper. Enriched with an erotic photograph (c. 1900?) mounted on the back cover (vol. I). Ref. Cp. Pia 1269-1270, Dutel 735 and 736, Kearney (Gay et Doucé) 325. - 5. Le rideau levé ou L'éducation de Laure [...]. Revised edition of the 1786 original. Priapeville, Librairie galante, an III du XXe siècle foutatif [i.e. Paris, Librairie du Siècle neuf, 1903]. Ref. Dutel 739. - Not in Pia, Kearney.
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About the sale Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes
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