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CURIOSITIES and GALANTERIES. 

18th-century picture books.

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18th-century picture books.

A collection of 6 works in 7 volumes.

-[DORAT]. My Fantasies. Third edition.

Printed at The Hague and sold in Paris, Delalain, 1770.

In-8, 363-(1) pp., red half-shagreen with corners (scattered light foxing).

Illustrated with a title-frontispiece page, a vignette on the title page, a headpiece and a footer, all engraved on copper by de Longueil and E. de Ghendt after Charles Eisen.

-DORAT. Mes Nouveaux torts…

In Amsterdam and Paris, published by Delalain, 1775. 8vo, later binding in red half-shagreen with corner pieces.

-EISEN. PEZAY (Marquis de). Zélis au bain, a poem in four cantos.

Paris, J. Lemonnyer, 1883. 8vo, orange half-maroquin with Bradel-style corners. Silver-threaded silk cover with etching preserved.

-GRÉCOURT, Jean-Baptiste Willart de. Selected Works of Grécourt, preceded by historical and critical remarks on the genre of poetry to which he belongs.

Paris, Paulin, 1833. 8vo, (2) ff., 147 pp., contemporary fawn morocco.

A volume bringing together licentious pieces by the Abbé de Grécourt. The illustrations consist of 10 plates enhanced with watercolour and numerous vignettes within the text.

Provenance: Charles Cousin (1822?-1894).

-LETTERS AND LOVE EPISTLES of Heloise and Abelard.

London, 1780. 2 volumes in-18, 2 portraits, 234 pp. + 228 pp., slightly later red morocco (slight rubbing to the binding, a few foxing spots).

-ROMANTIC AND LITERARY RARITIES Between Dog and Wolf.

Based on the Hamburg edition, 1809. In-8, half brown morocco.