EROTICA [Chorier Nicolas] Aloisiae Sigeae Toletanae Satyra

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(EROTICA.) [Chorier, Nicolas.] Aloisiae Sigeae Toletanae Satyra Sotadica de Arcanis Amoris et Veneris. Aloisia hispanice scripsit latinitate donavit Joannes Meursius V.C. [12], 165, [1]; [2], 78, [2] pages, including last leaf with query for grammarians. Collation: a in 6, A-K in 12, L in 4, with G4 missigned G3 and G6 missigned G5. Catchwords on each page. 12mo, 124x69 mm, early 20th-century 1/2 calf gilt; margins trimmed close just touching text on preliminary leaf a5, dampstaining in upper inner corners toward end, contents otherwise generally clean. [Np, 1660s?]

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Scarce early edition of a collection of 6 dialogues revolving around a young woman's sexual initiation, "the most outspoken erotic work of the 17th century" (Kearney). Though the text is purportedly the Latin translation by the Dutch classical scholar Johannes Meursius of a Spanish work by the 16th-century poet Luisa Sigea de Velasco, the real author was a French lawyer and historian. The first edition was published circa 1660; the first complete edition with a seventh and final dialogue appeared in 1678. Kearney, A History of Erotic Literature, pages 34-46. From the library of the erotica scholar and collector Gershon Legman (1917-99), with his bibliographical notes and signature dated 1954 on a leaf mounted on the front endpaper.