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CURIOSA – [GERVAISE DE LA TOUCHE, Jean-Charles (1715-1782).] Histoire de Gouberdom, Portier des Chartreux. Cette Edition a été revue, corrigée & augmentée sous les yeux du Saint Pere. N.p.: n.p., 1772.
Two parts in one volume, 8º (206 x 131mm). Pagination: [4], 326 pp. 23 engraved plates, including the frontispiece, all printed in pink, engraved title vignette printed in black. (Small repaired hole in the frontispiece caption affecting a few letters.) Contemporary red morocco, flat spine gilt in compartments, green morocco label, covers with gilt fillets and turn-ins, gilt edges (corners with expert small repairs, stain on back cover). Provenance: Charles Hayoit (1901-1984, industrialist; label, his sale, Sotheby’s Paris, 28 June 2001, lot 38).
ONE OF VERY FEW COMPLETE COPIES KNOWN, WITH ALL 23 EROTIC ENGRAVINGS, OF ‘THE MOST CELEBRATED AND OLDEST EROTIC NOVEL’ (PERCEAU). A FINE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH MOROCCO.
‘Dom Bougre is one of the main 18th-century erotic novels. It enjoyed great success... Everyone had it in hand, including Adelaïde, King Louis XV's fourth daughter, then 14 years old’ (Eros invaincu 28, for the 1748 edition).
The first edition (1740) is almost entirely lost, apart from a sole copy preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Gouberdom went through numerous editions, including this remarkably illustrated edition, published anonymously in 1772, with the rare engravings printed in red.
This famous novel was also intended as an anti-materialistic and anticlerical critique. The title-page claims that the work was reviewed, corrected and enlarged under the personal supervision of the Pope; a statement illustrated by the engraved vignette featuring the pope interfering with a woman on a sofa.
A fine copy from the library of the Belgian collector Charles Hayoit.
Reynaud, Notes supplémentaires sur les livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle, 1955, 199-200; Soultrait 18th century 43.
Two parts in one volume, 8º (206 x 131mm). Pagination: [4], 326 pp. 23 engraved plates, including the frontispiece, all printed in pink, engraved title vignette printed in black. (Small repaired hole in the frontispiece caption affecting a few letters.) Contemporary red morocco, flat spine gilt in compartments, green morocco label, covers with gilt fillets and turn-ins, gilt edges (corners with expert small repairs, stain on back cover). Provenance: Charles Hayoit (1901-1984, industrialist; label, his sale, Sotheby’s Paris, 28 June 2001, lot 38).
ONE OF VERY FEW COMPLETE COPIES KNOWN, WITH ALL 23 EROTIC ENGRAVINGS, OF ‘THE MOST CELEBRATED AND OLDEST EROTIC NOVEL’ (PERCEAU). A FINE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH MOROCCO.
‘Dom Bougre is one of the main 18th-century erotic novels. It enjoyed great success... Everyone had it in hand, including Adelaïde, King Louis XV's fourth daughter, then 14 years old’ (Eros invaincu 28, for the 1748 edition).
The first edition (1740) is almost entirely lost, apart from a sole copy preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Gouberdom went through numerous editions, including this remarkably illustrated edition, published anonymously in 1772, with the rare engravings printed in red.
This famous novel was also intended as an anti-materialistic and anticlerical critique. The title-page claims that the work was reviewed, corrected and enlarged under the personal supervision of the Pope; a statement illustrated by the engraved vignette featuring the pope interfering with a woman on a sofa.
A fine copy from the library of the Belgian collector Charles Hayoit.
Reynaud, Notes supplémentaires sur les livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle, 1955, 199-200; Soultrait 18th century 43.
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