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CURIOSA -- Le Boudoir d'Amaranthe, ou les Nouveaux Plaisirs de l'Isle de Cythère. Paris: au Palais-Royal, 1803.
12° in 6's (139 x 86mm). 134pp, half-title, engraved frontispiece, (apparently lacking 2 other engraved plates). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 11 ORIGINAL PEN, INK AND WASH DRAWINGS, and 11 pencil sketches (with explanatory text in ink above) on which the drawings are based loosely inserted. (Neat repairs to margins of first few leaves.) Later green morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., by L.Fixon.
FIRST EDITION. AN UNUSUAL COPY WITH EARLY-19TH-CENTURY DRAWINGS. Gay I.424 (erroneously states 3 volumes) requires 3 engraved plates. Perceau, Bibliographie du roman érotique 4-1
12° in 6's (139 x 86mm). 134pp, half-title, engraved frontispiece, (apparently lacking 2 other engraved plates). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 11 ORIGINAL PEN, INK AND WASH DRAWINGS, and 11 pencil sketches (with explanatory text in ink above) on which the drawings are based loosely inserted. (Neat repairs to margins of first few leaves.) Later green morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., by L.Fixon.
FIRST EDITION. AN UNUSUAL COPY WITH EARLY-19TH-CENTURY DRAWINGS. Gay I.424 (erroneously states 3 volumes) requires 3 engraved plates. Perceau, Bibliographie du roman érotique 4-1