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Auction archive: Lot number 452

Erotica. The Snuff Box Portray'd, 1744

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$270 - US$406
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 452

Erotica. The Snuff Box Portray'd, 1744

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$270 - US$406
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Erotica. The Snuff Box Portray'd, Sold in May's Buildings Covent Garden, & at ye Glob in Pater Noster-Row, July the 19 1744, pp.14 [final page mis-numbered 15], 13 engravings of men and women (alternating), each with a 4-line verse beneath, toned, leaf preceding title torn away (frontispiece?), and evidence of 2(?) leaves lacking at rear, rear blank with contemporary ink trials, final page with brown mark, blue pastepaper endpapers, front free endpaper with contemporary ownership name, rear free endpaper with lower third torn away, original Dutch floral boards, worn, lacking rear cover and most of spine, 80 x 50mm (3 x 2ins), together with Pious Reflections for Every Day of the Month, Translated from the French of The Archbishop of Cambray, Leeds: printed for J. Binns, 1796, original red morocco, 9 x 5.5cm (3.5 x 2ins) (Qty: 2) Extremely rare: not listed in ESTC; we have been unable to find another institutional copy or one sold at auction. The ladies depicted herein are somewhat lasciviously attired, and have titles such as ''Miss Notenough', 'Wanton Polly', and 'Polly Peachum'.

Auction archive: Lot number 452
Auction:
Datum:
21 Jan 2021
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

Erotica. The Snuff Box Portray'd, Sold in May's Buildings Covent Garden, & at ye Glob in Pater Noster-Row, July the 19 1744, pp.14 [final page mis-numbered 15], 13 engravings of men and women (alternating), each with a 4-line verse beneath, toned, leaf preceding title torn away (frontispiece?), and evidence of 2(?) leaves lacking at rear, rear blank with contemporary ink trials, final page with brown mark, blue pastepaper endpapers, front free endpaper with contemporary ownership name, rear free endpaper with lower third torn away, original Dutch floral boards, worn, lacking rear cover and most of spine, 80 x 50mm (3 x 2ins), together with Pious Reflections for Every Day of the Month, Translated from the French of The Archbishop of Cambray, Leeds: printed for J. Binns, 1796, original red morocco, 9 x 5.5cm (3.5 x 2ins) (Qty: 2) Extremely rare: not listed in ESTC; we have been unable to find another institutional copy or one sold at auction. The ladies depicted herein are somewhat lasciviously attired, and have titles such as ''Miss Notenough', 'Wanton Polly', and 'Polly Peachum'.

Auction archive: Lot number 452
Auction:
Datum:
21 Jan 2021
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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