Mar 20, 2003 - Sale 1964

Sale 1964 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[D'HANCARVILLE, PIERRE FRANÇOIS HUGHES, BARON.] Priapi uti Observantur in Gemmis Antiquis. Text printed in orange. 30 colored erotic plates. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, re-backed retaining original backstrip with lettering piece stating simply "gems," moderate wear; scattered light soiling. Lugd. Batavorum [i.e. London, circa 1775

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Possible later separate printing of the two-volume work, the other titled Veneres Uti Observantur in Gemmis Antiquis which contained 35 plates apiece and with parallel English and French text. This has only the French. Sinkankas 2718-19.