Les quatre heures de la toilette des dames. FAVRE, Emile de. Les quatre heures de la toilette des dames. Poëme érotique dédiée à son Altesse Sérénissime Madame la Duchesse de Lamballe. Paris, Bastien − Imprimerie Pierres, 1779.
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Start Price 400 € /
Description
8vo wide, mm. 235x165; Splendid binding signed ‘Rivière & Son’, red morocco, spine with ribs and golden sections, covers with frames, edges, golden inside cover, marbled end papers; pp. [12, inclu. Half Title and Title page], 84. Frontispiece, Head Piece with dedication with device of the princess de Lamballe, 4 copper plates at full page, 4 culs-de-lampe, all in copper.
ORIGINAL EDITION, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. The illustrations, drawn by Leclerc drawings, are etched from Arrivet, Halbou, Legrand, Leroy and Patas. This work of erotic is a unique testimony of the last season of the Ancien Regime: according to Cohen, the cul-de-lampe of the third song has its head adorned with feathers of the Princess de Lamballe, which is particularly curious and premonitory views the tragic end that the princess suffered at the time of the Revolution.
Gay-Lemonnyer: “Très belles illustrations; les culs-de-lampe surtout sont superbes”. Esemplare in preziosa legatura l’autore, firmata da Rivière e suo figlio.
Cohen-De Ricci, 376.
Fresh and fine specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
ORIGINAL EDITION, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. The illustrations, drawn by Leclerc drawings, are etched from Arrivet, Halbou, Legrand, Leroy and Patas. This work of erotic is a unique testimony of the last season of the Ancien Regime: according to Cohen, the cul-de-lampe of the third song has its head adorned with feathers of the Princess de Lamballe, which is particularly curious and premonitory views the tragic end that the princess suffered at the time of the Revolution.
Gay-Lemonnyer: “Très belles illustrations; les culs-de-lampe surtout sont superbes”. Esemplare in preziosa legatura l’autore, firmata da Rivière e suo figlio.
Cohen-De Ricci, 376.
Fresh and fine specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
