MIRABEAU Le libertin de qualité, ou Confidences d'un prisonnier au chateau de Vi…
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MIRABEAU Le libertin de qualité, ou Confidences d'un prisonnier au chateau de Vincennes. Written by himself. Avec figures. À Stamboul de l'imprimerie des Odalisques 1784 In-8° : front.-viii (i.e. 6)-317-[3] pp. ; 7 h.-t. (slight soiling to title). 19th c. crushed red half-chagrin with corners, marbled paper boards set with a double gilt fillet, gilt ribbed spine, gilt t. (some minor rubbing). Fine untrimmed copy. Second edition (orig. under the title "Ma conversion": London, 1783), decorated with a front. (different from the one described by Pia, which is dated 1783 in Roman numerals) and 7 unsigned free plates. Dedicated to "Monsieur Satan". Text framed by an ornate typographic double fillet. Complete with Avis au relieur. Ref. Dutel A-640 - Pia 801-802 - BGL II:929. - Cohen 709-710. Joint, same format: Id. - Erotika Biblion [...]. Nouvelle édition, revue et corrigée sur un exemplaire de l'an IX [...]. Paris, frères Girodet, 1833. Half calf (spine worn). Good untrimmed copy. Edition enlarged with a preface and notes, "unobtainable" (Gay) following the destruction of most copies, "very rare" (Pia) at the time Poulet-Malassis obtained a copy to reprint. Ref. Dutel A-343 (cites engraved portr.). - Pia 443. - BGL II:151. Prov. Armorial stamp on last f. (2 vols.)

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