Les Bijoux du petit neveu de l'Arretin , or libertine greeti - Lot 304

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Les Bijoux du petit neveu de l'Arretin , or libertine greeti - Lot 304
Les Bijoux du petit neveu de l'Arretin , or libertine greetings, dedicated to women, formerly of quality, and sensitive, if there are any; to honest representatives of the Nation, whose number is limited; to chaste clergymen, whose age yields to pleasures; finally to voluptuous followers of the pleasures of Love, and everywhere there are some. For the year 1793. With sixteen figures in intaglio. In Paris, from the printing house of Delaunay, connoisseur if ever there was one, 1793. In-8 of 84 pages, brown tortoiseshell calf, pearled scroll around the boards, smooth ornamented spine, turquoise paper lining and endpapers (period binding, slight lacks at the headpieces, corners dull). Illustrated with 16 engravings including a frontispiece. Anonymous potpourri composed of songs, verse tales and short stories, a masterpiece of the revolutionary period and of the abolition for some time of censorship. Lemonnyer 1-401, R.P. 36. Pia 129, Éros Invaincu 5, Bibliothèque Gérard Nordmann, dec. 91, Dutel A-150. Provenances: ex-libris Roger Peyrefitte and Peter Mendes.
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