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Choiseul-Meuse, Félicité de. Julie, ou j'ai sauvé ma rose. Par Madame de C***. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. 2 vols. Hambourg, et se trouve à Paris, chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1807. 2 pp., 252 p.; 2 pp., 287 p. 16 x 10 cm. Contemporary half leather bindings with spine label and gilt spine (slightly rubbed). In the year of the first edition. - Gay II, pp. 747-748 - Pia, pp. 713-714 - Early lesbian romance novel, also attributed to Mme Guyot. Probably banned in France because of the lesbian scenes. - "Roman libre et finissant par des scènes d'amour lesbien extrêmement vives ... Julie est une demoiselle qui arrive à sa trentième année après s'être livrée à un odieux libertinage, sans cesser d'être vierge dans l'acception physiologique du mot." (Gay). - Old ownership inscription on title. - Good copy in decorative bindings.

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Choiseul-Meuse, Félicité de. Julie, ou j'ai sauvé ma rose. Par Madame de C***. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. 2 vols. Hambourg, et se trouve à Paris, chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1807. 2 pp., 252 p.; 2 pp., 287 p. 16 x 10 cm. Contemporary half leather bindings with spine label and gilt spine (slightly rubbed). In the year of the first edition. - Gay II, pp. 747-748 - Pia, pp. 713-714 - Early lesbian romance novel, also attributed to Mme Guyot. Probably banned in France because of the lesbian scenes. - "Roman libre et finissant par des scènes d'amour lesbien extrêmement vives ... Julie est une demoiselle qui arrive à sa trentième année après s'être livrée à un odieux libertinage, sans cesser d'être vierge dans l'acception physiologique du mot." (Gay). - Old ownership inscription on title. - Good copy in decorative bindings.

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[CHOISEUL-MEUSE, Félicité de] Julie, ou J'ai sauvé ma rose. Hambourg et Paris chez les marchands de nouveautés 1807 2 vol. in-12 : [4]-240, [4]-272 pp. (qqs rouss., rare stains). Bradel percaline rose mod. with marbled paper boards set with gilt fillet and stippling, gilt flowered spines, green titles (spines faded, small dents to headpieces). Untrimmed. First edition of this Sapphic novel ending in torrid lesbian love scenes, hence the epigraph warning: "La mère en défraindre la lecture à sa fille" ("The mother will forbid her daughter to read it"). A second edition, in modernized French, appeared under the same date and address, but 15 years later according to Pia. The attribution to Mme Guyot has been refuted by Paul Lacroix, who sees in it the work of the Comtesse de Choiseul-Meuse (1767-1838), real or supposed author of some twenty novels of varying licentiousness. Extremely rare: even the Enfer de la BnF only has the 1st volume of our edition. Ref. Perceau 6-1 (mentions 276 pp. for t. II, but our ex., which ends with the word "Fin", seems complete). - Pia 713-714 (t. I only). - Nordmann I:85. - Cp. BGL II:747-748. - Not in Dutel. - Cf. Martin, J.-C. - "L'érotisme au féminin ou la transgression discrète en temps de crise?", in: Genre. Revolution. Transgression. Études offertes à Martine Lapied. Aix-en-Provence, 2015, pp. 95-104 [online]. Prov. Karl Ludwig Leonhardt, Hamburg (ms. note on lower flyleaf of vol. I).

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VOSGES. MEUSE. Engraving of 1704. "Part of the Bailliage of VOSGES or MIRECOURT, in the Duchy of LORRAINE. Partie du Bailliage de BASSIGNY ou BARROIS mouvant dans le Duché de Bar, divisés par Prévôtés, offices, sénéchaussés, et autres subdivisions, où sont exactements remarqués les enclaves et de qui elles dépendent,par le Sieur JAILLOT, Géographe ordinaire du Roy, 1704." (53.5 x 75.5 cm) Condition B

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Duc de CHOISEUL (1719-1785) Letter signed 'Le Duc de Choiseul', Compiègne August 17, 1769, 1 page in-4 in brown ink addressed to Prévot Desangle. Enclosed is an engraving from his cabinet. (framed)

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