![A collection of ten 18th-century erotic books in French, comprising: [NOGARET, François (1740-1831).] L’Arétin François, Par un Membre de l’Académie des Dames. Imprimé Cette Année a mes Depens, n.d. [c.1800]. 4° (217 x 133mm). [1]f., [30]ff. Engraved title and 19 engraved plates, some with touches of colour, by Borel and Elluin. (Occasional browning, one plate with small losses in the margin, one with a small marginal repair.) 19th-century red quarter calf with red glossy paper boards, edges blue, marbled endpapers. A RARE QUARTO EDITION apparently not recorded by Dutel. [With:] [MIRABEAU, Honoré, comte de (1749-1791).] Errotika Biblion. A Rome: de l'imprimerie du Vatican, 1783. 8° (208 x 125mm). (Occasional spotting, small stain on the title.) Contemporary red quarter morocco with orange paper sides, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt roll-tooled border to the sides, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, sides soiled and spotted, manu](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12140_0438_000(a_collection_of_ten_18th-century_erotic_books_in_french_comprising_nog082916).jpg?w=1)
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A collection of ten 18th-century erotic books in French, comprising: [NOGARET, François (1740-1831).] L’Arétin François, Par un Membre de l’Académie des Dames. Imprimé Cette Année a mes Depens, n.d. [c.1800]. 4° (217 x 133mm). [1]f., [30]ff. Engraved title and 19 engraved plates, some with touches of colour, by Borel and Elluin. (Occasional browning, one plate with small losses in the margin, one with a small marginal repair.) 19th-century red quarter calf with red glossy paper boards, edges blue, marbled endpapers. A RARE QUARTO EDITION apparently not recorded by Dutel. [With:] [MIRABEAU, Honoré, comte de (1749-1791).] Errotika Biblion. A Rome: de l'imprimerie du Vatican, 1783. 8° (208 x 125mm). (Occasional spotting, small stain on the title.) Contemporary red quarter morocco with orange paper sides, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt roll-tooled border to the sides, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, sides soiled and spotted, manuscript annotations on the endpapers.) FIRST EDITION. Dutel A-337; Pia 441. [And:] Le Parc au cerf, ou l’origine de l’affreux deficit. Par un zélé patriote. Paris: Sur les débris de la Bastille, 1790. 4° (210 x 134mm, with deckle edges). 4 engraved plates, including the frontispiece. (Some gatherings browned, occasional spotting.) Tan half morocco with mottled boards, by Canape-Belz, signed, top edge gilt. Provenance: Gabriel Espierre (pictorial bookplate) — “Phillip” (stamp in katakana characters). First edition. Dutel A-828. [And:] Valentine ou le v... coupé par l’Abbé Bazin évèque de Mizoura en Mizourie. Paris: an VIIe de la République. 12° (163 x 100mm, with deckle edges). 2 engraved plates. (Occasional light even browning, deleted inscription on the title.) 20th-century roan. FIRST EDITION. RARE. Dutel A-1134. And with six others in seven volumes, including editions of La Tentation de Saint Antoine, Vénus dans le cloitre, Etrennes aux Grisettes, and Le Droit de jambage.
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