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Auction archive: Lot number 216

DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784)]. Les Bijoux indiscrets . Au Monomotapa [but Paris, 1748].

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 216

DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784)]. Les Bijoux indiscrets . Au Monomotapa [but Paris, 1748].

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784)]. Les Bijoux indiscrets . Au Monomotapa [but Paris, 1748]. The first edition of the first work of fiction by Denis Diderot. It is a licentious romance, in which a thinly-veiled parody of Louis XV is given a magic ring which enables women’s “jewels”—that is, their genitalia—to speak and share their owners’ amorous secrets. A classic of erotic satire which skewers its targets with panache. Cohen-de Ricci 303; Tchemerzine IV:430. Two volumes, 12mo (161 x 97mm). 7 engraved plates (some occasional pale dampstaining in vol. 2). Contemporary French sprinkled calf (skillfully rebacked preserving original spines, morocco lettering-piece on vol. 2 renewed).

Auction archive: Lot number 216
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784)]. Les Bijoux indiscrets . Au Monomotapa [but Paris, 1748]. The first edition of the first work of fiction by Denis Diderot. It is a licentious romance, in which a thinly-veiled parody of Louis XV is given a magic ring which enables women’s “jewels”—that is, their genitalia—to speak and share their owners’ amorous secrets. A classic of erotic satire which skewers its targets with panache. Cohen-de Ricci 303; Tchemerzine IV:430. Two volumes, 12mo (161 x 97mm). 7 engraved plates (some occasional pale dampstaining in vol. 2). Contemporary French sprinkled calf (skillfully rebacked preserving original spines, morocco lettering-piece on vol. 2 renewed).

Auction archive: Lot number 216
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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