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in sumptuous bindings by Lefebvre
Monumens de la vie privée des douze césars, d?après une suite de pierres gravées sous leur Règne.
A Caprées, chez Sabellus (Nancy, Leclerc), 1780. 4to (260 x 195 mm). XII, 196 p.
With frontispiece and 50 plates with engraved medaillon engravings.
[Bound uniformely with:] Monumens du culte secret des dames romaines, d?après une suite de Pierres gravées sous leur Regne; Pour servir de suite à la vie des douze Césars.
A Rome, de l?imprimerie du Vatican, 1790. (engraved title page 1787). [II], 16, 98 p.
With engraved title page and 50 numbered engraved plates (mostly printed on papier bleuté.)
Straight grained red morocco, gold tooled. On the covers a broad border of a palmette roll and rozettes in the corners. Spine with 5 half raised bands. Title in compartment 2, the other compartments with a temple tool. Board edges and turn ins with a decorative roll. Double end bands of pink and white silk. Pink ribbon markers. Marbled end leaves. Edges gilt. (Signed at the tail of vol. 1: "rel. p. lefebvre")
The scandalous side of the love life of the Romans depicted in cameo?s. It is based on an earlier work, Veneres et Priapi uti observantur in gemmis antiquis, first published in Naples about 1771. The cameo?s are probably invented by the author, in the words of Quérard, "in this book the author tries to present the fruits of his libidinous imagination as antique treasures".
d'Hancarville was an amateur art dealer (1719-1805), who ornated himself with the title Baron and the name d'Hancarville.
The first part of 1780 is the first issue of the first edition with the title printed in 11 lines, the second work is a re-impression of the ?Vatican? edition. In May 1815 and September 1826, this book was condemned by the Royal Court of Paris.
-Literature: Eros au secret, 157; Barbier III, 349/50; Bibliographie clérico-galante 107 (other ed.); Biblioteca Arcana 357; Bilderlexicon II, 488; Brunet III, 1874; Caillet 4959 (ed. 1786, planches 'spintriennes') and 4960 (ed. 1784); Cohen-Ricci 474-5; Conlon 80:1163; Drujon, Catalogue des ouvrages condamnés 267; l'Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale 342 (8vo ed. 1782) and 914 (ed. 1784); Gay-Lemonnyer III, 1309; Graesse IV, 595; Hayn, Bibliotheca erotica et curiosa 384 and 386; Hayn-Gotendorf III, 59-65; Lewine 233 (II ed. 1784); Pia 1998, 954; The Private Case 855 and 859 (ed. 1784); Rose 3079 and 3081 (ed. 1784); Quérard IV, 23; Sander 893/4.
-Condition: Continuously slightly browned and stained; printing failure on the first prelim leaf of vol. 2; Corners a bit bumped and joints a bit rubbed; Else a fine copy an a sumptuous signed binding.
With frontispiece and 50 plates with engraved medaillon engravings.
[Bound uniformely with:] Monumens du culte secret des dames romaines, d?après une suite de Pierres gravées sous leur Regne; Pour servir de suite à la vie des douze Césars.
A Rome, de l?imprimerie du Vatican, 1790. (engraved title page 1787). [II], 16, 98 p.
With engraved title page and 50 numbered engraved plates (mostly printed on papier bleuté.)
Straight grained red morocco, gold tooled. On the covers a broad border of a palmette roll and rozettes in the corners. Spine with 5 half raised bands. Title in compartment 2, the other compartments with a temple tool. Board edges and turn ins with a decorative roll. Double end bands of pink and white silk. Pink ribbon markers. Marbled end leaves. Edges gilt. (Signed at the tail of vol. 1: "rel. p. lefebvre")
The scandalous side of the love life of the Romans depicted in cameo?s. It is based on an earlier work, Veneres et Priapi uti observantur in gemmis antiquis, first published in Naples about 1771. The cameo?s are probably invented by the author, in the words of Quérard, "in this book the author tries to present the fruits of his libidinous imagination as antique treasures".
d'Hancarville was an amateur art dealer (1719-1805), who ornated himself with the title Baron and the name d'Hancarville.
The first part of 1780 is the first issue of the first edition with the title printed in 11 lines, the second work is a re-impression of the ?Vatican? edition. In May 1815 and September 1826, this book was condemned by the Royal Court of Paris.
-Literature: Eros au secret, 157; Barbier III, 349/50; Bibliographie clérico-galante 107 (other ed.); Biblioteca Arcana 357; Bilderlexicon II, 488; Brunet III, 1874; Caillet 4959 (ed. 1786, planches 'spintriennes') and 4960 (ed. 1784); Cohen-Ricci 474-5; Conlon 80:1163; Drujon, Catalogue des ouvrages condamnés 267; l'Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale 342 (8vo ed. 1782) and 914 (ed. 1784); Gay-Lemonnyer III, 1309; Graesse IV, 595; Hayn, Bibliotheca erotica et curiosa 384 and 386; Hayn-Gotendorf III, 59-65; Lewine 233 (II ed. 1784); Pia 1998, 954; The Private Case 855 and 859 (ed. 1784); Rose 3079 and 3081 (ed. 1784); Quérard IV, 23; Sander 893/4.
-Condition: Continuously slightly browned and stained; printing failure on the first prelim leaf of vol. 2; Corners a bit bumped and joints a bit rubbed; Else a fine copy an a sumptuous signed binding.
€ 2.000
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