Lot n° 469
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[MANDEVILLE, Bernard (1670-1733)]. - Lot 469
[MANDEVILLE, Bernard (1670-1733)].
Venus the popular, or Apology of the houses of joy. London, A. Moore, [Holland], 1727. 1 vol. small in-8. Full tan glazed calf, triple gilt fillet on the boards, ornamented spine, brown morocco title-piece, date at foot, gilt edges. THOUVENIN]. XIIpp, 130pp.
Rare first edition, with a dedicatory epistle to the members of the society, established for the reformation of morals, signed by Phil-Pornix.
>Charles Nodier's copy, with his bookplate pasted on the flyleaf: Ex musaeo Caroli Nodier.
Pia Enfer, 1496 (mentions only the reprint of Brussels 1869).
Wormholes around the title-piece.
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