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1961144025London: Golden Cockerel Press 1961. First edition thus; number 8 of 100 copies specially bound by E. W. Hiscox. Moncrif 1687-1770 was a French writer courtier and academician now best known for his Histoire des Chats first published in 1727. In letter form Moncrif discusses the role of cats throughout history and his work can be read both as a satire of pedantic academic writing and a sincere tribute to the domesticated feline. "Let us calm ourselves. one day we shall see the merits of Cats generally recognized. It is impossible that we should not come to feel that in our Cat we possess a friend who is the best of company an admirable Pantomimist a born Astrologer a perfect Musician in short the union of the talents & the graces" p. 104-5. Tall quarto. 10 full-page illustrations by Coypel taken from the first edition in 1727. Original dark blue and red morocco titles and publisher's device to spine gilt cat design to front board gilt top edge gilt other untrimmed. Housed in a dark blue cloth slipcase. Very light sunning to spine still a fine copy in very lightly rubbed slipcase. hardcover
23013801Japan n.d. ca 1920. Green brocade silk covers accordion folded book all edges gilt contains 12 double-page color drawing on front and back sides of the leaves 12 x 18 cm. very good tiny faint margin stain on 2 else clean. SCARCE A charming and quaint erotic book. It begins with a couple engaged in love-making and tongue kissing and also shows the various other positions and styles of love-making. The couples are wearing the usual Taisho period 1912-1926 Kim- ono and coiffeur laying on the Tatami mats in typical Jap- anese style rooms. The artwork is skillfully executed in Sumi black outline with color applique. Each color drawing occupies double pages 24 x 18 cm. A very tiny bit of corn- er wear to the covers else very bright and unique work. Harubon erotic books have been banned in Japanese society since the 1850's so were always an underground" sub-culture never for sale in the open market but rather passed among collectors discreetly. Color scans can be sent by email. unknown
1608045526Rouen: Claude le Villain 1608. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Three rare Rouen imprints from 1608 bound as one as printed with separate title pages in modern full red morocco with inner dentelles raised bandsmarbled endpapers - old bookseller or binder stamp on front endpaper. Very slight fading otherwise a fine binding. Light browning trimmed a little close in spots almost touching the titles and running titles small paper repair in the margin of the final page of Paradis otherwise clean internally. 60 20 10 leaves.<br /> <br /> Just a few copies in OCLC - 3 of the 1606 with only Paradis 2 of this one with all three poems and one copy of a 1610 edition with only Paradis.<br /> <br /> Three anonymous love poems the most successful and longest of which is Le Paradis D'Amour which describes a shepherd struck by Cupid who falls for a girl who is too young a nymph who he rejects and then that same Nymph who has been reincarnated by Circe but who then rebuffs him. Like Froissart's famous medieval poem by the same name the poem is largely centered around a dream.<br /> <br /> Provenance: A. Van Loock stamp on endpaper Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Erotica. Inventory No: 045526. Claude le Villain hardcover
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174291805Troyes: Chez la Veuve Oudot 1742. Fine. Chez la Veuve Oudot Troyes 1742 9.6 x 15.9 cm Relié Second edition partly original notably augmented with several additional pieces complete with the caricature woodcut portrait of the widow Oudot as frontispiece printed in green as is the title. According to Barbier the burlesque portrait was engraved by one of the authors the comte de Caylus himself. Contemporary full mottled brown calf smooth spine richly gilt with fleurons palms and scrollwork brown-red morocco lettering-piece triple gilt fillet bordering the boards with fleurons at corners gilt fillet on board edges all edges gilt pastedowns and endpapers of small-comb pattern marbled paper. Small losses to the headcaps lower joint of the front board split over 1 in. light wear to the joints some surface scratching to the board margins front board slightly warped corners bumped. Marginal stain on p. 19. A collection of bons mots satires and anecdotes Les Étrennes de la St Jean is a collective work assembled around the comte de Caylus in the salon of mademoiselle Quinault. The members of the group Moncrif Voisenon Crébillon fils. called themselves the Société du Bout-du-Banc and composed in the wake of copious and convivial dinners several miscellanies: Les Étrennes de la Saint-Jean one of the best known and most celebrated Les Écosseuses ou les ufs de Pâques Histoire de Guillaume Quelques Aventures curieuses et galantes des bals de bois Recueil de ces Messieurs etc. ""As a young man the comte de Caylus had paid considerable tribute to the literature of fairy tales which the translations from the Arabic and Persian by Galland and Pétis de la Croix had brought into fashion; his true self is not to be found in these artificial creations to which he returned when nearly seventy. But in the intervening years his personality as a writer emerged and declared itself in accordance with his manners and tastes and in how favourable a setting! The Société du Bout-du-Banc that academy of Gallic ribaldry presided over by Mlle Quinault; those suppers at which an inkwell served as centrepiece and which La Chaussée d'Armenonville Voisenon Moncrif the Grand Prior of Vendôme Duclos Salley and Crébillon fils inflamed with their bawdy and bantering wit. All men of letters with little taste for philosophy all content to let the world go its own way and finding it well enough as it was all of that sacred flock of Epicurus somewhat metamorphosed by Circe where each is satisfied or nearly so with what their presiding lady said was sufficient for Duclos the least fastidious among them. The popular literature of the eighteenth century that is the literature which took the common people as the subject of its observations and tableaux was born in this company of ribaldry and folly and the comte de Caylus was its natural father and its foster father; it took its first lively flights in these Écosseuses 1739 in these ""Étrennes de la Saint-Jean"" 1742 in these ""Mémoires de l'Académie des colporteurs"" in these ""Aventures des bals des Bois"" in these ""Fêtes roulantes"" 1748 a veritable magic lantern of Parisian popular life ."" Avertissement ""Mémoires et réflexions du comte de Caylus"" 1874 Second edition partly original of a collection in the poissard vein marked by its lightness of tone and naive style born of the fashionable suppers of the Société du Bout-du-Banc where several of the finest minds of the eighteenth century gathered among them Montesquieu and d'Alembert. Chez la Veuve Oudot hardcover
19902083002115803603Hebei People's Publishing House 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 8 Hebei People's Publishing House paperback
