[CURIOSA] La vie de garçon dans les hôtels-garnis de la capitale, ou de l'amour à la minute Chez les principaux libraires du Palais-Royal à Paris, 1820 - Very rare first edition, with a fold-out frontispiece engraved by Choquet after Burdet. A very attractive copy in an original full marbled paper binding with morocco title-piece, slightly rubbed. The curious frontispiece depicts a man ("le parasite indiscret") peering through a bull's-eye into the next room, where a topless woman is seated next to a man at a table featuring books and a skull and crossbones. Note the amusing captions annotated "-by means of my tendril, I saw some..... oh? How white and round they were!!!...." and on the other side "Lie down, Casimir, you'll be cold as ice....". In-16, 264pp. Pia, 1389

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