CAYLUS / POINSINET DE SIVRY / ARNAUD / BARTHEZ / PÉTRONE / P - Lot 357

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CAYLUS / POINSINET DE SIVRY / ARNAUD / BARTHEZ / PÉTRONE / P - Lot 357
CAYLUS / POINSINET DE SIVRY / ARNAUD / BARTHEZ / PÉTRONE / PORÉE / LE MAISTRE DE SACY - A fine collection of 18th-century literary curiosities: libertine novels, witty satires and anticlerical charges. Sometimes clandestine, always daring, these texts reflect the critical effervescence and rebellious spirit of the Enlightenment. 1: LE FAUX RAVISSEUR ou caravanes galantes du chevalier d'Abbeville, by M. L. Le M. Hambourg [Liège], aux dépens de la Société, 1755. 2 volumes bound in 1 volume in-12: 164 ; 160 pp. Contemporary brown calf, cold framed boards, spine ribbed, title page. (Traces of a shelf label at the top of the spine, a few light scratches, dull corners). Unique first edition of this licentious novel, banned by police order in 1825. Title in red and black. Ref. n° 8756 in the Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Duc de La Vallière, seconde partie. Tome 3e. (Paris, Nyon, 1788). 2: [Anne Claude Philippe de Pestels de Lévis de Tubières-Grimoard comte de CAYLUS] - Les Manteaux. Recueil. Premiere partie [- Seconde partie, que l'on peut se dispenser de lire]. La Haye [i.e. Paris], 1746. 2 parts bound in 1 vol. small in-8°: xxiv, 182, [2 bl.] ; [4], 128 pp. Frontispiece (The author's name has been added in black ink to the title). Blond half calf with corners, spine ribbed, title page. (Lightly post. bound). ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by E. Fessard after C.N. Cochin. Ref. Barbier, III, 34; Cohen, 210. STCN, 227274067. Provenance: Johan Hindric Tawast's armorial bookplate. 3 : [Louis Poinsinet de Sivry] / [Arnaud, François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d' ARNAUD] / [BARTHEZ, avocat] - Recueil factice de 3 ouvrages. In-12. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, title page. - 1 : [Louis POINSINET DE SIVRY] - La Berlue. Londres [i.e. Paris], a l'enseigne du Lynx, 1759, x-124 pp. FIRST EDITION. Ref. ESTC, T200360. Barbier, I, 400. - 2 : [Arnaud, François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'ARNAUD] - Amour, ce sont là tes jeux. Aventures vénitiennes, adressées à Mad. T. de L. Bruxelles [i.e. Paris], 1754, [4], 141 pp. Ref. Barbier, I, 139. This is the same work as "Le Bal de Venise" published in 1747. - 3: [BARTHEZ, avocat] - Callophile, histoire traduite de scythe en latin, par un vieux philosophe visigoth. Et mise en français par un jeune avocat du Languedoc. Thrabes Callophile amoureux, à sa chère Érasime Érigau, epître dédicatoire et songe. Eutaxie, 1759, 2 parts, [2]-xiv-78-[2 bl.] ; 11-[2-1 bl.] pp. The 2nd part is entitled: "Thrabes Callophile amoureux, à sa chère Érasime Érigau, épître dédicatoire et songe". FIRST EDITION. Ref. Barbier, I, 480. 4: PÉTRONE - Pétrone latin et françois, complete translation, according to the manuscript found in Belgrade 1688... Nouvelle édition, augmentée de la Contre-critique de Pétrone [par François Nodot]. S.l.s.n., 1713. 2 volumes in-8° : [2]-xlix-[3]-383; [2]-293-[3 bl.]; [4]-126 pp. 1 repeated frontispiece and 9 plates (Rousseurs). Contemporary glazed blond calf, spine ribbed, title and appendices. 1 repeated frontispiece, 9 plates out of text including 2 fold-outs. 5 : [Charles Gabriel PORÉE] - Histoire de D. Ranucio d'Alétès written by himself. With figures. Venice [Rouen], F. Pasquinetti, 1736. 2 volumes in-12 : [2]-x-[2]-308; [2]-iv-(xi-xiii-[1], ff. of the table of T.I)-280 pp. 3 pl. (Rous. et brunissures). Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, title and giblets (Joints rubbed, 1 joint split at head and tail, 2 caps torn off). ORIGINAL EDITION of this virulent anticlerical charge. Illustrated with 2 frontispieces, 1 repeated title vignette, 1 unsigned hors texte figure. Ref. Barbier, II, 666. Cohen, 487 (mentions only 2 figures). 6 : Isaac Louis LE MAISTRE DE SACY - Les Enluminures du fameux almanach, en estampe, qui parut en 1653, de la part des jésuites, intitulé : "la Déroute et la confusion des jansénistes". These illuminations were made in response and are attributed to the late M. de Sacy... Liége, Le Curieux, au Temple de mémoire, 1733. In-12: [18]-95 pp. 1 pl. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, title page. (Upper headband torn off). Edition illustrated with 1 unsigned allegorical plate. Ref. Barbier, II, 115-116 (1654 ed.). De Theux, col. 329 (1683 ed., under a different title). Provenance in ink: Amyot du Châtelet. TOGETHER 7 VOLUMES.
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