[Curiosa]. MIRABEAU (Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti de)]. Errotika - Lot 86

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[Curiosa]. MIRABEAU (Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti de)]. Errotika - Lot 86
[Curiosa]. MIRABEAU (Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti de)]. Errotika biblion. In Rome, from the Vatican Printing House, 1785, 192 p. [Bound in the suite]: Le caleçon des coquettes du jour. At The Hague, s.n., 1763, 35 pp. [And]: Le parc au cerf, ou l'origine de l'affreux déficit, par un zélépatriote. In Paris, on the debris of the Bastille, 1790, pp. [3]-191. Three works in 1 vol. in-8, early 19th c. shagreened basane, spine smooth and ornate, red basane title-piece, yellow edges (rubbing and a small worm's work at the edges of the boards, one corner dulled; browning; wetness at the end of the vol, angular lacks in the margins of the last ff., the frontispiece is missing, and 1 pl. in the last work, which also has 2 f. torn without lack). Gathering: 1. an uncommon edition of this famous text by Mirabeau which first appeared in 1783 (Gay II, 150; abs. de Pia); 2. first edition of the anonymous verse tale, Le caleçon des coquettes du jour (Gay I, 449); 3. "First edition, rare" (Pia, col. 1079), of Le Parc au cerf; 2 plates are missing from this copy, (the frontispiece and the Recueil scène avec le banquier Peixotte), it has kept the 2 others (portraits of Madame de Pompadour and demme de Châteauroux).
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