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17992503310077Printed by T. Maiden for Vernor and Hood London 1799. Hardcover. Good. 2 volume set. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Scattered spotting. Library stamps and markings. An abridgment of J.F.A. de Sade's 'Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarque' 22 cm. Pagination: volume 1: xviii 388 12 pages 6 leaves of plates; volume 2: 2 401 11 pages. From the library of noted New Yorker Frederic de Peyster 1796-1882. Printed by T. Maiden, for Vernor and Hood, London hardcover
176417366Amsterdam Arskée & Mercus 1764 in-4 br., non rongné, couvertures papier gris éditeur (2ff.), XXIV-495pp., et 82pp. (1f. d'errat.), 1 vignette gravée.
1792HAO-40Extrait des registres de délibérations de la commune de Verriéres(-le-Buisson); en date du 24 mars 1793, certifiant que Madeleine-Laure de Sade et sa mère Renée-Pélagie ont résidé dans cette commune, en la maison des Montreuil, du 14 juin 1792 jusqu’au 4 mars 1793. Certificat de résidence en faveur de Madeleine-Laure de Sade, délivré par l’administration du canton de Chevreuse, le 9 ventôse an III (27 février 1794) pour son séjour à Verrières du 4 juin 1792 au mars 1793. 2 Pièces papier, 1792-1794, le certificat porte un cachet plaqué de cire rouge (République française)
17951370659London: Aux depens de la compagnie 1795 1880. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo 453 pages. In Very Good condition. Quarter bound in green cloth with silk marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing and shelfwear to head and tail of spine with stray dark possible ink marks above title. Fading of cloth boards along hinges of spine. Bumping to paper fore-edges exposing boards and chipping along top and bottom edges of front and back paper covers. Age-toning to textblock. Small ink marks to top left of first free edge. Slight separation between first free edge and half-title page at gutter. Tanning with intermittent light soiling to edges of pages. Mild soiling and minor tearing to half-title page for second book in volume located after page 206. Noticeable staining to bottom right of pages 2165-247. Pages tipped in between 16-17 and 240-241 cut. The listed print date of 1795 is inaccurate. This copy was printed in 1880. This volume actually contains two distinct books and it was banned at the time of its publication. It is likely that this is a clandestine edition published by Jan Gay in Belgium. <br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Currently these two works are seen as more of a social commentary on morality especially in the wake of the French Revolution. De Sade's arguments in support of 'libertinism' and atheism are of particular focus. 1370659. Special Collections - Downstairs. Aux depens de la compagnie hardcover
1794HAO-41Certificat de résidence, en date du 1er pluviôse an II (5 février 1794), délivré par la section de l’Observatoire (Paris) à Renée-Pélagie Cordier de Montreuil, demeurant au 1069 rue de la Madeleine. Certificat de la même section de l’Observatoire , en date du 4 ventôse an II (22 février 1794) attestant que Renee-Pélagie Cordier de Montreuil et sa fille Madeleine-Laure sont entrées dans cette section en octobre 1783 (rue neuve Sainte- Geneviève) et en sont parti au mois de juin 1792, pour aller s’installer dans la section des piques. Témoignages de l’étroite surveillance dont étaient l’objet ces deux femmes, ces certificats ont tout de même l’avantage de nous renseigner sur leurs adresses. 2 pièces papier, 1794, le premier certificat est en forme de placard ( 38 x 45 cm)
1797013852London: Printed by T. Bensley for The Associated Booksellers Vernor and Hood; J. Cuthell; J. Walker; Ogilvy and Son; Lackington Allen and Co. and J. Nunn. 1797. Book. Very Good. Near Fine. This was Mrs. Dobson's first book and was very popular going into a sixth edition by 1805. Based in part on de Sade's Mémoires pour la vie de Petrarch more of an abridgment than a true translation. 'this book restored Petrarch after a hundred and fifty years of banishment to an active part in English literature' Marshall 124 quoted in ODNB. Gentleman's Magazine praised Dobson's translation for maintaining 'that pathos and spirit of the original'. GM 45 1775 186. ----------- Each rebound in half green quarter-calf hardcover with marbled boards lettered title to red label in gilt with tooled and volumes and decoration in four bands on the spine. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean light even toning with offsetting from plates; tile pages and free endpages darkened on their perimeters. Moderate shelf handling wear. Third Edition. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; Volume 1: flyleaf title 2 leaves preliminary iii-xviii 1-388 index & flyleaf 7 leaves; Volume 2: flyleaf title 2 leaves 1-401 index & flyleaf 6 leaves; Seven copper-plates designed by Kirk and engraved by Ridley. ----------- Petrarch 1304-1374 often called the 'Father of Humanism' was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. The model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works. wiki -------- REF: ESTC 006410796; ODNb. ----------- Subjects: 18th Century; Biography; Humanism; Italian History; Italian Literature; Medieval Europe; Medieval History; Renaissance . Printed by T. Bensley, for The Associated Booksellers, Vernor and Hood; J. Cuthell; J. Walker; Ogilvy and Son; Lackington, Allen Hardcover books
172515891725 Imp. Dominique Eysséric, Carpentras, 1725. In-4, plein vélin d'époque. 169 pages. Textes latin et français en regard sur deux colonnes.Transaction passée entre la ville de Mazan et les seigneurs François des Bernards, Sieur de Saint Andiol, et Messieurs Esprit Laugier et Jean- François Carias.
17743103Amsterdam 1774. Full Leather. original edition good condition 448 82 pp 495 83 pp 812 102 pp hardcover
18001370732Paris: Chez Massé Éditeur proprietaire 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo 4 256 4 246 1 pages. In Poor condition. Rebound in quarter marbled paper plain brown paper spine. Shelfwear chipping and tearing to paper spine and boards. Edges of textblock tanned with age-toning and minor soiling to textblock. Lacking both issued frontispieces. With both half-titles. On Tome III the title page has had 'Tom III' torn out with the small hole repaired. Small backing to fore edge of half-title and title page. Tome III A1 is missing the top half of the leaf plain paper attached with crude ink titling to the recto only. Tome III F1 with small repair to the fore edge and crude ink lettering to the recto. Tome IV G11-12 with some damage to fore edges G12 with slight loss to words. Significant tide-marks and water staining throughout though most severe at extremities and along gutters. A damaged and incomplete copy but any editions of Sade's works published during his life are scarce. This volume is books 3 and 4 of a 4 volume collection of 11 stories and an original essay by the author. Not included in this volume is Sade's essay "Idée sur les Romans" in which Sade denies being the author of Justine. 1370732. Special Collections - Downstairs. Chez Massé, Éditeur proprietaire hardcover
177659527s. l.: S. n. 1776. Fine. S. n. s. l. Circa 1776 32 x 40.50 cm une feuille encadrée Original drawing in ink and watercolor. Modern frame. Drawing made during the journey with the Marquis de Sade in 1776. Jean-Baptiste Tierce 1737-1794 student at the École des Beaux-arts in Rouen then at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris quickly distinguished himself as a landscape painter for his views of Southern France and Italy. His paintings are preserved in the Uffizi in Florence and in several French museums. When in December 1775 Sade left Rome for Naples he was welcomed by the son-in-law of his friend Doctor Mesny Jean-Baptiste Tierce who at that time received commissions from Cardinal de Bernis. He found lodging for the Marquis ""who intended to see everything in the region learn about everything judge admire criticize love hate in short to give free rein to that insatiable and passionate curiosity which led him into museums galleries churches palaces and libraries as well as into caves vaults catacombs and even into the bowels of volcanoes. He was not content to contemplate works of art ancient or modern monuments he also observed customs politics religion administration social life. The beauty of women worldly customs the quality of performances ways of eating drinking dressing praying conducting oneself in society: nothing left him indifferent. He wanted to grasp all the present and all the past of this civilization to embrace it entirely in a single and universal vision. A gigantic program matching his exceptional imagination but which he no longer had to fulfill which it was impossible for him to fulfill. Yet such was his first ambition as a writer: grandiose excessive. With this 'great work' in view Sade took hasty notes at roadsides or in inns which he completed with notes from his correspondents Mesny and Iberti. Thus was built this monument he intended for the public but which would not see the light of day until the twentieth century. Jean-Baptiste Tierce collaborated closely: he reread the notes and recorded his observations in small notebooks with numbers referring to the works described. Sade took the greatest account of them. Often the painter accompanied him on his walks his sketch pad in hand drawing the buildings and landscapes they had before their eyes. A hundred of these drawings and gouaches were recently found in the Sade family archives. They give the Voyage en Italie the appearance of a true reportage."" Maurice Levert Sade pp. 283-284. Provenance: Sade family archives. S. n. unknown
179059474s. d. [circa 1790] | 16 x 20.10 cm | 3 pages sur un double feuillet
17971370760En Hollande Paris 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. 347 pages. In Good condition. Rebound in 20th century half brown leather with marbled paper boards. Paneled spine has gilt lettering and tooling with green label for title title misspelled 'Justine' as 'Justinn.' Volume one only. This copy almost certainly washed. Title page through page 6 and page 339-end mounted on tabs. Lacking seven leaves plus six engravings being the half-title page; pages i ii iij iv Editor's Notice unpaginated sheet frontispiece and five of the ten engravings. Engravings tipped in at pages 82 219 209 240 and 262. Scarce in any condition. Shelved case 3. BNF: Enfer 2507. Identifying a particular edition of Justine is a bibliographical challenge due to the complexity of the printing. The clandestine printing of publishers and printers through multiple countries and cities combined with seizures by the authorities led to a wide variety of reissues and reprints.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> "La Nouvelle Justine" is one of Sade's most notorious books which he at times denied authorship of during his lifetime. This is only volume one of the original edition and is missing some of the original pages. Its alternate title is "Les Malheurs de la Vertu" and the second volume following this one is titled "L'Histoire de Juliette Sa Soeur." 1370760. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. hardcover
1790594741790. Fine. s. d. circa 1790 16 x 20.10 cm 3 pages sur un double feuillet List of 38 plays 15 plays performed at the Théâtre-Français and 23 at the Comédie-Italienne probably written by one of the Marquis's secretaries. Annotations erasures deletions and corrections in the Marquis de Sade's hand. This list corresponds to theatrical plays performed from 1783 to 1785 at the Théâtre français present-day Théâtre de l'Odéon and at the Théâtre italien known today as the Opéra-Comique or Salle Favart. The Marquis was in the habit of having the Almanach des spectacles sent to him each year in order to keep informed of current events on the Parisian stage. Thus in a letter of December 1784 to his wife Renée-Pélagie he requests: ""Liste d'objets dont j'ai besoin. . Deux almanachs . des spectacles. Les comédies ou tragédies nouvelles de l'année de l'un et l'autre spectacles. J'en ai d'autant plus besoin cette année que j'ai prodigieusement travaillé dans l'un et l'autre genre et que je ne puis me passer de ce qui paraît pour m'instruire et vérifier."" ""List of objects I need. . Two almanacs . of spectacles. The new comedies or tragedies of the year from both theaters. I need them all the more this year as I have worked prodigiously in both genres and I cannot do without what appears to educate myself and verify."". All the plays listed in this inventory appear in the theatrical almanacs reproduced by Sylvie Dangeville in her work Le Théâtre change et représente Honoré Champion Paris 1999. Anxious to maintain a link with the outside world the Marquis ordered enormous quantities of works notably brochures of freshly published theatrical plays. Thus in 1775 in a letter to the Widow Duchesne a famous Parisian bookseller-publisher he requests: ""Pour l'intelligence du billet ci-joint Madame Duchesne est priée de jeter les yeux sur l'Almanach des Spectacles article pièces nouvelles et en conséquence elle voudra bien remettre au présent porteur tout ce qui a été imprimé à l'un ou l'autre spectacle savoir du Théâtre français depuis l'Hôtellerie ou le faux ami et du Théâtre italien depuis l'Amitié au village l'un et l'autre inclusivement si elles sont imprimées ou exclusivement si elles ne le sont pas jusqu'à l'époque de la clôture des spectacles. Le porteur n'a qu'un louis ; si les pièces montaient à une somme plus forte Madame Duchesne enverrait d'abord pour cette somme et ferait dire celle qu'il faudrait envoyer le lendemain pour avoir le total."" ""For the understanding of the enclosed note Madame Duchesne is requested to cast her eyes on the Almanach des Spectacles article 'new plays' and consequently she will kindly give to the present bearer everything that has been printed at one or the other theater namely from the Théâtre français since 'l'Hôtellerie ou le faux ami' and from the Théâtre italien since 'l'Amitié au village' both inclusively if they are printed or exclusively if they are not up to the time of the theaters' closure. The bearer has only one louis; if the plays amounted to a greater sum Madame Duchesne would send first for this sum and would have announced the amount that would need to be sent the next day to have the total."". The ""note"" referred to at the beginning of the letter is very likely the list we are offering; the two titles to which the Marquis refers appear in it. Rare and precious list cataloguing the works read by the Marquis at the beginning of his incarceration at the Bastille starting point of his prolific literary production. Provenance: family archives. unknown
177659528s. l.: S. n. 1776. Fine. S. n. s. l. Circa 1776 40 x 50 cm une feuille encadrée Italian scene: animated seaside with square tower Original pencil drawing showing an animated seaside scene. Modern black wooden frame. A drawing done during the journey the artist undertook with Sade in 1776. Jean-Baptiste Tierce 1737-1794 who studied at the School of Fine Arts in Rouen and subsequently at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris quickly built a reputation as a landscapist for his views of the South of France and Italy. His paintings are in the Uffizi in Florence and several French museums. When in December 1775 Sade left Rome for Naples he was welcomed by the son-in-law of his friend Dr. Mesny Jean-Baptiste Tierce who at the time was working on commissions for Cardinal de Bernis. He found lodgings for the Marquis who intends to see everything of the region learn everything judge admire critique love hate in short give himself over to the insatiable and passionate curiosity that takes him to museums galleries churches palaces and libraries as well as grottoes caves catacombs and right down to the very innards of volcanoes. He was not content merely to look at the various works of art and ancient and modern monuments; he also set out to observe the local mores politics religion administration and social life. The beauty of the women the local traditions the quality of plays table manners and the way people drank dressed prayed and made their way in the world all interested him. He wanted to take in both the present and the past of this culture to encompass it all in a unique and universal vision. A massive undertaking to match his extraordinary imagination which he was however unable to fulfil it being impossible for him to do so. This was however the nature of his central ambition as a writer: grandiose and outsized. With a view to this great work Sade took hurried notes at the side of the road or in hostelries which he then complemented with notes from his correspondents Mesny and Iberti. Thus he built up the monument he intended to put before the public but which did not end up seeing the light of day until the 20th century. Jean-Baptiste Tierce was a close collaborator: he re-read Sade's notes and gave his observations on the little notebooks with numbers referring to the works mentioned. Sade took the greatest notice of his views. Often the painter accompanied him on his rambles sketchbook in hand drawing the buildings and landscapes before them. A hundred or so of these drawings and watercolors were recently found in the Sade family archives. They give the Voyage en Italie the charm of a real travel diary. Maurice Levert Sade pp. 283-284. Provenance : Sade family archives. S. n. unknown
175859468Paris dimanche 2 avril 1758 | 13.40 x 19.20 cm | 2 feuillets
1778919461778 - 1779 | 15.5 x 13.5 cm | Une feuille
1799WOC-1994Orné de frontispices. Paris, Pigoreau, Libraire & Leroux, Libraire, An VII (1799). 3 volumes in-12 (16x10cm) reliés demi veau brun d'époque, dos lisse ornés de filets horizontaux dorés. 2ff., 193pp. + 2ff.,191pp. + 2ff.,192pp. 1ff.(table).
175859468Paris 1758. Fine. Paris dimanche 2 avril 1758 13.40 x 19.20 cm 2 feuillets Will of Louise-Anne de Bourbon-Condé known as Mademoiselle de Charolais copied by the hand of Jean-Baptiste-François-Joseph Count de Sade and father of the Marquis in which the latter makes her nephew Louis-François Joseph de Bourbon Prince de Conti her universal legatee. A second part concerns bequests to livery servants to chambermaids and valets to the wardrobe keeper etc. Footnote in the hand of the Marquis de Sade: ""known as Mademoiselle de Charolais"". Attached is a note sheet written in Sade's hand with a view to publishing his father's correspondence. This will was written five days before the death of Mademoiselle de Charolais whose death occurred on Friday April 7 1758 following three months of illness. The second part of the will is dated Sunday April 2 1758 while the first bears the date of Sunday April 12 1758: this is obviously an erroneous date. The entirety of this copy was written by the hand of the Count de Sade who lived with Mademoiselle de Charolais at her château of Athis-Mons from 1750 until her death. The young Count de Sade sent by his father to Paris around 1720 had as protector Louis-Henri de Bourbon Prince de Condé known as Monsieur le Duc. Upon his arrival the young man appreciated court life and ""Rare thing he pleased women without making himself hated by men: hence the number of his friends at least as high as that of his mistresses. . M. de Sade was not content with easy conquests; bourgeois women left him indifferent. Those he sought - and most often conquered - were court women not only endowed with wit and beauty but also adorned with an illustrious name credit influence or fortune capable in a word of serving his interests and putting him in good standing at court."" Lever Sade. Among his conquests figured Mademoiselle de Charolais seven years his senior sister of his protector and then royal mistress. Little desirous of marrying she preferred all her life to remain unmarried and multiplied adventures and prestigious lovers. She was notably the favorite of the Duke de Richelieu but also of Louis XV for whom she recruited numerous mistresses thus earning the sobriquet of ""royal procuress"". The carnal encounter between Mademoiselle de Charolais and the Count de Sade took place on November 24 1725 while the latter was confined to bed because of a sprain. A letter from Louise-Anne attests to this nascent adventure: ""November 24 is the most beautiful day of my life if I have regained possession of my kingdom and my sovereignty by the rights of the bed where I swore you an oath of fidelity. I count on having received yours and I now live for the prettiest king in the world."" Papiers de famille p.20. The passion was not reciprocal however and the fickle Count de Sade soon met the Duchess de la Trémoïlle. Thus distancing himself from Mademoiselle de Charolais he wrote to her by way of breaking up: ""I regarded Madam the advances you made to me as provocation of your mind and not of your heart. I did not have the honor of knowing you I owed you nothing a sprain obliged me to keep to my room I was idle there your letters were pretty they amused me I flattered myself if it were true that I had made your conquest that you might cure me of an unfortunate passion which occupies me entirely."" op. cit. p.23. In 1752 the Count de Sade was ruined by his lifestyle he had sent young Donatien to Louis-le-Grand college and lodged with his good friend Mademoiselle de Charolais at the château of Athis-Mons: ""I have retired to Mademoiselle's although it is cruel at my age to depend on someone to reduce my expenses."" Letter from the Count de Sade to his uncle the provost of L'Isle-sur-Sorgue November 11 1752. He remained with his friend accompanying her in her numerous travels across Europe until her death. The correspondence between the Count de Sade and Mademoiselle de Charolais con unknown
1778919461778. Fine. 1778 - 1779 15.5 x 13.5 cm Une feuille ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND Lettre autographe originale du Marquis de Sade écrite depuis la prison de Vincennes le 21 mai 1778 possiblement 1779 le dernier nombre se terminant en paraphe étant difficile à déchiffrer. Cette lettre a été écrite à l'épouse du Marquis de Sade Renée Pélagie le dernier paragraphe est adressé à sa mère la présidente de Montreuil responsable de son emprisonnement par lettre de cachet. La lettre s'achève juste par un paraphe comme souvent avec la correspondance de Sade. La lettre provient directement de la famille descendante de Sade. Une feuille de papier mal découpée en marge haute avec deux pliures au dos. 20 lignes d'une écriture serrée. Lettre dans laquelle Sade requiert son transfert dans une prison plus salubre avec des sorties journalières telle que Saumur ou Doullens. L'auteur évoque ses conditions difficiles et l'altération de sa santé provoquée par sa détention à Vincennes ainsi que l'existence d'un complot dont il serait ""la vache à lait de la police"". Les dernières lignes sont adressées à la présidente de Montreuil sa belle-mère : A vous que j'appelais autrefois ma mère . et se concluent avec cette opprobre : ""Qui m'eut dit que ce serait un jour avec mon sang et avec l'honneur de vos petits enfants que vous achèteriez le vil crédit du tribunal de police."" unknown
177659469s. l.: S. n. 1776. Fine. S. n. s. l. circa 1776 32 x 40.50 cm une feuille encadrée Original drawing in ink and watercolor depicting an animated seaside view with a village perched on a cliff. Modern framing in blonde molding. Drawing executed during the journey made with the Marquis de Sade during the year 1776. Jean-Baptiste Tierce 1737-1794 student at the École des Beaux-arts in Rouen then at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris quickly distinguished himself as a landscape painter for his views of the South of France and Italy. His paintings are preserved at the Uffizi in Florence and in several French museums. When in December 1775 Sade left Rome for Naples he was welcomed by the son-in-law of his friend Doctor Mesny Jean-Baptiste Tierce who at that time was receiving commissions from Cardinal de Bernis. He found lodging for the Marquis ""who intended to see everything in the region learn about everything judge admire criticize love hate in short to give free rein to that insatiable and passionate curiosity which led him into museums galleries churches palaces and libraries as well as into grottos vaults catacombs and even into the bowels of volcanoes. He was not content to contemplate works of art ancient or modern monuments; he also observed customs politics religion administration social life. The beauty of women worldly customs the quality of entertainments ways of eating drinking dressing praying conducting oneself in society: nothing left him indifferent. He wanted to grasp all the present and all the past of this civilization to embrace it entirely in a single and universal vision. A gigantic program commensurate with his exceptional imagination but which he could no longer fulfill which was impossible for him to fulfill. Yet such was his first ambition as a writer: grandiose excessive. With this 'great work' in view Sade hastily took notes at roadsides or in inns which he supplemented with the notes of his correspondents Mesny and Iberti. Thus was built this monument which he intended for the public but which would not see the light of day until the 20thth century. Jean-Baptiste Tierce collaborated closely: he reread the notes and recorded his observations in small notebooks with numbers referring to the works described. Sade took the greatest account of them. Often the painter accompanied him on his excursions his sketchbook in hand drawing the buildings and landscapes before their eyes. About a hundred of these drawings and gouaches were recently found in the archives of the Sade family. They give the Journey to Italy the appearance of a true reportage."" Maurice Levert Sade pp. 283-284. Provenance: archives of the Sade family. S. n. unknown
178321208931783. Vincennes fortress. 15 October 1783. Single leaf c. 155 x 100 mm pp. 2 comprising 38 lines written in dark brown ink; a few small stains to verso but generally very good.An apparently unpublished autograph note by the Marquis de Sade 1740-1814 addressed to his wife listing items he requested from prison primarily books.On 26 August 1778 Donatien Alphonse Francois Marquis de Sade was arrested at his chateau in La Coste Provence on charges of sexual violence and libertine excesses and subsequently imprisoned in the fortress of Vincennes. From his cell he remained prolific maintaining an extensive correspondence - primarily with his wife Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil 1763-1813 - and continuing work on Voyage d'Italie and several plays. In the summer of 1782 he wrote Dialogue entre un pretre et un moribund and began Les 120 Journees de Sodome ou l'ecole du libertinage. When Vincennes closed in February 1784 he was transferred to the Bastille where he produced a fair copy of Sodom the so-called ""rouleau de la Bastille"" now regarded as his first major work.An insatiable reader Sade regularly consulted the catalogue of the bookseller Merigot le Jeune whose shop stood at the corner of Quai des Augustins now Quai des Grands-Augustins and Rue Pavee now Rue Seguier. He selected works on history science philosophy and travel which he ordered through his wife. In this note to her he requested essential items for prison life including writing and reading materials: a ""blank book"" a ""table mat"" and the ""night candles of the largest size"". Among his reading requests were works by Francois-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud 1718-1805 Jacques Delille 1738-1813 Claude Joseph Dorat 1734-1780 and Jean Francois de Saint-Lambert 1716-1803 as well as Le Decameron francais by Louis d'Ussieux 1744-1804. Of these authors Dorat stands out for his affinity with libertine themes having gained renown for his erotic poetry plays and novels including the epistolary seduction novel Les Malheurs de l'inconstance 1772.The text of the note runs as follows:liste du 15 octobre 1783.je prie qu'on envoie les objets avantles fetes.Le livre blanc tel quil est detaille dans le lettresdes pastilles arabiques eprouvees avantde les envoyer.Le linge demandeencore trois pieces d'estomac.L'etui.Un tapis de table aux mesures envoyees.Deux rubans de tete.Des bougies de nuit de la plus grande taille.La petite boite du necessaire objet sur lequelil est bon de faire une observation c'est quil ne m'est necessaire quici et que dehors je n'en ai que faire.Le coussin pour le croupion essentiellement.Les douze paires de bas.Deux bouteilles de vin de peche.Suite du bon empiresuite de l'histoire de francesuite du voiyageur.Les almanachs et les Comedies nouvelles.OEuvres de darnaudde dorat. - de st lambert - de lille -le decameron francois vingt volumes de roman nouveaux de 1777 a 17783 sic.verso:envoyez de ces livres les au moinsvingt ou trente volumes parce que j'en manque tres absolument et tres au pied de la lettre. Je ne vous demande point de quinzaine expres afin que vous m'envoyiez a la place des livres don't je ne peux plus absolument me passer 8 jours surtout ceux de seconde - lecture don't j'ai encore pour la semaine et pas davantage Je vous embrasse de tout mon coeurList of 15 October 1783I pray that the items be sent before the holidays.The blank book as detailed in the letters.The Arabic pastilles tested before being sent.The requested linen.Three more stomach pieces.The case.A table man to the measurements sent.Two head ribbons.Night candles of the largest size.The small necessity box an item on which it is worth making an observation: it is only necessary for me here and outside I have no use for it.The cushion for the rump essential.Twelve pairs of stockings.Two bottles of peach wine.Continuation of the Bon empireContinuation of the History of France.Continuation of the Voyageur.The almanacs and the new comedies.Works of d'Arnaud.Of Dorat - of Saint-Lambert - of Delille.The Decameron francais.Twenty volumes of new novels from 1777 to 1783.verso:Send at least twenty or thirty volumes of these books for I am in absolute need of them and that in the strictest sense. I do not request fortnightly shipment on purpose so that instead you may send books without which I absolutely cannot do for even eight days - especially those for second reading of which I have enough for the week and no more.I kiss you with all my heart. unknown
179168333Marquis de Sade's First Published Book. Greatly Expanded from the Original Novella SADE Marquis de. Justine Ou Les Malheurs De La Vertu. En Hollande Paris: Chez les Libraires Associes 1791. Second edition published the same year as the first and considered equally or even more rare. Two twelvemo volume in one 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches; 165 x 95 mm. 2 5-339 1 blank; 4 228 pp. Both Volume I and II are in twelve and both title-pages have the pyramid-shape vignette engraving. With the half-title for volume II only which is identical to the volume I half-title. Our copy is lacking the engraved frontispiece in volume I as well as the 3 leaves which are commonly lacking in volume I the half-title for volume I the "LÃavis de lÃÈditeur" Notice from the Editor and "LÃexplication de lÃestampe." Explanation of Frontispiece. These two leaves are almost alway lacking and in fact are only known of in one or two copies. Volume is textually complete and with the half-title. Volume II is lacking the twelve engraved plates as usual. Title-pages of both volumes are bound in on stubs. Full 19th-Century maroon sheep. Boards triple-ruled in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Floral gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In volume I leaf F5 with a one-inch closed tear barely affecting text. Leaf S3 with corner renewed not affecting text. In volume II half-title with a closed tear professionally repaired. A small marginal hole to leaf C5 not affecting text and leaf T5 with marginal repair not affecting text. Some light staining and toning throughout. Otherwise a very good copy. This second edition printed the same year as the first edition is the first published work by Marquis de Sade. The original story entitled "Les Infortunes de la Vertu" was composed while he was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1787-1788 but was never published until 1930. Upon his release from imprisonment he much expanded and reworked the story articulating "the voice of a first-person female narration and not only recounts JustineÃs point of view but her vocal stutters and juvenile logorrhea as well." Kristi L. Krumnow Utah State University. "Justine his most famous and influential work a greatly-expanded version of a novella he wrote while in the Bastille is the harrowing story of a 14-year old orphan of uncompromising virtue who over the course of ten years is captured and abused by a succession of amoral libertines. The work reads like a symposium in moral philosophy whose interlocutors all of whom have the same learned voice whether male or female young or old take time out from their discourse for increasingly extravagant and brutal sex scenes presented in the allusive and metaphoric language of the period. Structurally based on Candide in the interminable suffering of the innocent heroine in a world of corruption it argues that those who hold virtue as an ideal are doomed to poverty and abuse while those who acquiesce in vice become rich and successful. The work was so popular that it appeared in seven further editions in the course of ten years. The first edition was not illustrated save for the frontispiece. The second edition which appeared the same year in reduced format but without alteration of the text save for a few lines added to the end of the ìavis de lÃÈditeurî was adorned with twelve engraved illustrations lacking as usual in the present copy." Sotheby's 14 December 2012 Cohen-de Ricci 920. HBS 68333. $10000 Chez les Libraires Associes hardcover books
1793733941er avril 1793 | 15.60 x 20 cm | une page sur un feuillet
1793733941793. Fine. 1er avril 1793 15.60 x 20 cm une page sur un feuillet Unpublished autograph letter signed and dated written in black ink and addressed to a notary. On the verso probably in the hand of a secretary the inscription ""Sade du 1er avril 1793""; below this inscription a short sentence in the Marquis's hand: ""so that I may write to Gaufridy to send him money"". Some transverse folds from the original folding for posting. Lengthy letter addressed to a notary while the Marquis freed on April 2 1790 by the abolition of royal warrants is at liberty and attempting to put his affairs in order. After the Revolution his sons emigrated and he did not follow them. His name nevertheless appears on the list of persons who left France due to the revolutionary troubles: ""I hope that with all this I will manage to have my name erased from that fatal list of émigrés."" Anxious not to be considered a ci-devant Marquis in this period preceding the Terror he insists on the persecution of which he claims to be a victim despite his good will: ""It is an unparalleled atrocity that such a trick should have been played on me who have not left Paris since the revolution and who since that time have not ceased to give the most unequivocal proofs of my patriotism"". In this letter Sade also denounces the complexity of the workings of the French administration after the Revolution: ""I have just sent M. Lions the appropriate certificate of residence and I have attached a petition to the district which he tells me is . essential."" Impecunious he begs his lawyer ""to excite the zeal of those who owe him and to urge them to pay as much money as they collect immediately to M. Gauffridi sic"" and does not hesitate to show himself obliging in order to achieve his ends: ""spare no effort then I beseech you . always preserve for me your care and your friendship . I embrace and greet you with all my heart."" Sade's efforts would prove futile; in December 1793 he was imprisoned at the Madelonnettes before being admitted through the good offices of his friend Mme Quenet to the Coignard de Picpus establishment a nursing home sheltering wealthy suspects. Interesting unpublished letter showing the unfortunate Marquis at bay during one of his rare moments of freedom. unknown
178159108s. l. [Vincennes] s. d. [circa 1781] | 15.70 x 20.10 cm | une feuille
