![COINY, J.J. -- [CROZE-MAGNAN, Simon-Célestin (1750-1818).] L'Arétin d'Augustin Carrache, ou Recueil de postures érotiques, d'après les gravures à l'eau-forte par cet artiste célèbre, avec le texte explicatif des sujets. [Paris:] A La Nouvelle Cythère [Didot: c. 1799]. 4° (323 x 236 mm). Half-title. 20 engraved plates by Jacques-Joseph Coiny. (Some occasional light spotting, a few leaves lightly creased, plates 17 and 18 with tiny ink spots, leaf 20.1 with short marginal tear.) Modern crushed half green morocco over marbled-paper covered boards, uncut (front hinge cracking).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CSK/2015_CSK_10414_0031_000(coiny_jj_--_croze-magnan_simon-celestin_laretin_daugustin_carrache_ou110032).jpg?w=1)
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COINY, J.J. -- [CROZE-MAGNAN, Simon-Célestin (1750-1818).] L'Arétin d'Augustin Carrache, ou Recueil de postures érotiques, d'après les gravures à l'eau-forte par cet artiste célèbre, avec le texte explicatif des sujets. [Paris:] A La Nouvelle Cythère [Didot: c. 1799]. 4° (323 x 236 mm). Half-title. 20 engraved plates by Jacques-Joseph Coiny. (Some occasional light spotting, a few leaves lightly creased, plates 17 and 18 with tiny ink spots, leaf 20.1 with short marginal tear.) Modern crushed half green morocco over marbled-paper covered boards, uncut (front hinge cracking).
'THE MOST ARTISTIC OF EROTIC BOOKS IN RESPECT TO THE EXECUTION OF THE DRAWINGS' (Cohen-DeRicci), this copy handsomely bound by Lefebvre. Dutel A-97; Eros invaincu 7; Gay-Lemonnyer I, 260; Cohen-DeRicci 88; Kearney 335-6; Pia Enfer 85-86.
'THE MOST ARTISTIC OF EROTIC BOOKS IN RESPECT TO THE EXECUTION OF THE DRAWINGS' (Cohen-DeRicci), this copy handsomely bound by Lefebvre. Dutel A-97; Eros invaincu 7; Gay-Lemonnyer I, 260; Cohen-DeRicci 88; Kearney 335-6; Pia Enfer 85-86.
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