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494 - Mémoires d'une célèbre fille publique ou Aventures galantes,…
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Estimate €120 - €150
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Mémoires d'une célèbre fille publique ou Aventures galantes, civiles, politiques et militaires de Pauline, depuis sa naissance jusqu'à ce jour. In-8°: xv-[1]-392 pp; 1 h.-t. (russet, marg. tear rest. on one f. without affecting the text). - Rare first edition of this "abridged pastiche of the "Mémoires d'une contemporaine" [1827-1828], which were quite successful at the time" (Gay). Ill. with a large lithographed plate as frontispiece, divided into three parts representing three periods of Pauline's life: "Avant / Enlèvement", "Pendant / Beau règne", "Après / Décadence". - Ref. BGL III:150-151.
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About the sale Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes
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Auction time 06/25/2026 at 1:00 PM
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