[CURIOSA]. Le Degré des ages du plaisir, ou jouissances volu - Lot 7

[CURIOSA]. Le Degré des ages du plaisir, ou jouissances voluptueuses de deux personnes de sexes différens, aux différentes époques de la vie. Rcuueillis [sic] sur des mémoires véridiques, par Mirabeau, ami des plaisirs. Ornés de gravures et de chansons, avec le portrait de chaques âges. A Paphos, de l'imprimerie de la mère des Amours, 1793. In-16, 144 pp. 7 plates hors texte : jansenist red morocco, ribbed spine, double gilt fillet on the edges, interior lace, gilt edges (Amand). First and only early edition: the work was reprinted at the end of the 19th century. Very curious copper-engraved illustration: frontispiece featuring a boy urinating into a pot held by a little girl, five Arcimboldesque portraits whose faces are formed of nude bodies mating, and finally, the portrait of a mitred bishop with a triple dog's head. A copy in very good condition with wide margins. One of the plates is printed on stronger blue laid paper (Cohen II, col. 709: 7 figures. - Dutel, Bibliographie des ouvrages érotiques publiés clandestine en français, no. A-251: "This text is obviously not by Mirabeau." 8 figures).