Exercise de devotion de M. Henri Roch avec Madame la duchesse de Condor. Vaucluse (fing.) 1786. with eng. Frontispiece, 2 vols, VI, 69 pp, 1 leaf; paste-down dustwrapper; stronger signs of wear. Cf. Hayn-G. VIII, 143 f. Gay/ L. II, p. 202 - Pia 1998, 466 - cf. Cohen/ R. 1024 (ed. 1787). - Later edition (EA 1780). Apparently several editions were printed in 1786. - The frontispiece is missing. - "Ouvrage condamne a la destruction par jugement du Tribunal correctionel de la Seine prononce le 2 juin 1865" (Pia p. 434f). - Very rare early edition of this erotic novel.

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