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719 - Le cosmopolite ou Le citoyen du monde, by Mr.
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Estimate €120 - €150
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Description
Le cosmopolite ou Le citoyen du monde, by Mr. de Monbron. In-8°: 165-[2] pp. (slight foxing to title and passim). - Last edition of the time (orig.: s.l., 1750) of this unusual, satirical and licentious work, mixing crisp anecdotes and travel impressions, acerbic comments, sauciness and a few settlements of scores. Enriched with an anticlerical and revolutionary engraving taken from "La fable du Christ dévoilé" by Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal (1793). - Ref. BGL I:740 - Prov. A. Danicourt (ms. note on the flyleaf: "Purchased in London [...] 6 September 1877" with excerpt from the London bookseller's printed catalogue).
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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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