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[CLELAND, John (1709-1789)]. La Meretrice. Opera originale Inglese e dal Francese tradotta in Italiano. Cosmopoli [Venise: vers 1764].
In-8 (150 x 93 mm). 1f. n. ch. 126pp. 1f. bl. Veau moucheté de l'époque, triple filet d'encadrement doré, dos lisse orné, roulette intérieure (petites restaurations).
Première édition d'une traduction italienne partielle par le comte Carlo Gorzi des Memoirs of a Woman of pleasure de John Cleland. BEL EXEMPLAIRE DANS SA PREMIÈRE RELIURE. RARE. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 191.
In-8 (150 x 93 mm). 1f. n. ch. 126pp. 1f. bl. Veau moucheté de l'époque, triple filet d'encadrement doré, dos lisse orné, roulette intérieure (petites restaurations).
Première édition d'une traduction italienne partielle par le comte Carlo Gorzi des Memoirs of a Woman of pleasure de John Cleland. BEL EXEMPLAIRE DANS SA PREMIÈRE RELIURE. RARE. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 191.
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First Italian edition of Fanny Hill, printed only some 15 years after the English original. The anonymous translation can be attributed to Count Carlo Gorzi. Fine copy, in a contemporary binding.