Apr 10, 2003 - Sale 1966

Sale 1966 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 1,955
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
[ARGENS, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE BOYER, Marquis d', attributed to.] Thérèse Philosophe . . . Nouvelle Édition. 20 (of 21?) explicitly erotic engraved plates, 5 of them fully or partly hand-colored. 161, [1]; [4], 80 pages. 2 volumes in one. 18mo, contemporary French red morocco gilt; outer margins trimmed without text or image loss, occasional light soiling and marginal foxing, Volume 1 has repaired tear in blank lower outer corner of I8, and last leaf mounted. "Londres" [i. e., Paris: Hubert-Martin Cazin], 1785
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Libertine novel first published in 1748. Cohen-de Ricci 735 ("la plus jolie édition," calling for 20 plates); Gay-Lemonnyer III, 1213; Pia 1319 (calling for 21 plates).