MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti comte de. Errotika Biblion. Rome, Imprimerie du Vatican, [Neufchâtel, Fauche, Favre et Vital], 1783.
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Description
8vo, mm. 195x120; Contemporary full sheepskin binding, spine with ribs and gilded ornaments on the spine, red edges; pp. IV, 192. Woodcut Vignette on Titlepage.
ORIGINAL EDITION.
The work is divided into 11 chapters with titles in jew or greek that mask the sexual perversion that is described: masturbation, bestiality, tribadism, sexual mutilation, nymphomania.
Peignot: “Cet ouvrage monstrueux a été si sévèrement proserit par la police lorsqu’il a paru, qu’il ne se répandit que quatorze exemplaires de cette première édition. C’est une production licencieuse et remplie d’obscénités, dans laquelle l’auteur prétend prouver que, malgré la dissolution de nos mœurs, les anciens, et surtout les Juifs, étaients beaucoup plus corrompus que nous. Il passe en revue tous les genres de débauches et de libertinage.” The work was written by Mirabeau during his imprisonment at Vincennes, between 1777 and 1780; The original manuscript was sold to three editors who published it in Neuchatel, each of which he printed a part. The work was placed on the Index in Rome on June 2, 1794.
Pia, 413-414; Gay Lemonnyer, II, 150-155; Peignot, Dictionnaire de livres condamnes au feu, 321-22.
Bound with:
[ROUSSEL, Pierre-Joseph-Alexis]. [ROUSSEL, Pierre-Joseph-Alexis]. Correspondance secrète de plusieurs grands personnages illustres. Londres - Paris, Lerouge, 1802.
pp. [4], 279, i.e. 278, errors numbering from p. 61, numer. 62. Nice condition.
ORIGINAL EDITION The work concerns the contrasts between the members of the royal family in recent years before the Revolution, and speaks of enmity between the Queen and Philippe d'Orléans. The character names and places have been masked by the author.
Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, 1825, Vol. 39, p. 161.
Slight sign of foxing, good copy.
ORIGINAL EDITION.
The work is divided into 11 chapters with titles in jew or greek that mask the sexual perversion that is described: masturbation, bestiality, tribadism, sexual mutilation, nymphomania.
Peignot: “Cet ouvrage monstrueux a été si sévèrement proserit par la police lorsqu’il a paru, qu’il ne se répandit que quatorze exemplaires de cette première édition. C’est une production licencieuse et remplie d’obscénités, dans laquelle l’auteur prétend prouver que, malgré la dissolution de nos mœurs, les anciens, et surtout les Juifs, étaients beaucoup plus corrompus que nous. Il passe en revue tous les genres de débauches et de libertinage.” The work was written by Mirabeau during his imprisonment at Vincennes, between 1777 and 1780; The original manuscript was sold to three editors who published it in Neuchatel, each of which he printed a part. The work was placed on the Index in Rome on June 2, 1794.
Pia, 413-414; Gay Lemonnyer, II, 150-155; Peignot, Dictionnaire de livres condamnes au feu, 321-22.
Bound with:
[ROUSSEL, Pierre-Joseph-Alexis]. [ROUSSEL, Pierre-Joseph-Alexis]. Correspondance secrète de plusieurs grands personnages illustres. Londres - Paris, Lerouge, 1802.
pp. [4], 279, i.e. 278, errors numbering from p. 61, numer. 62. Nice condition.
ORIGINAL EDITION The work concerns the contrasts between the members of the royal family in recent years before the Revolution, and speaks of enmity between the Queen and Philippe d'Orléans. The character names and places have been masked by the author.
Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, 1825, Vol. 39, p. 161.
Slight sign of foxing, good copy.
