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TitleAngola, Histoire Indienne. Ouvrage Sans Vrai-Semblance Premiere [et deuxieme] Partie Nouvelle Edition Corrigee De Quantite De Fautes
Author(La Morliere, Jacques Rochette de).
EditionNouvelle Edition
PublishedN.P. Agra [Paris] 1747
Description2 Vols in one. XIII-[V]-128 & 166 PP. A Agra (Paris): Avec Privilege du Grand Mogol. Dedicated by the author "Aux Petites Maitraisses". A new edition, published one year after the first, of this "Chef d' Oeuvre de la Littérature Galante" and the favourite novel of the boudoir in Pre-Revolutionary France. Supposedly based on the papers of the Duc de la Trémoille and attributed to Crébillon fils. Angola, Histoire Indienne has now been succesfully established as the work of Charles Jacques Louis Auguste de la Rochette, Chevalier de La Morlière. (1701-1785] Cf. Dufrenoy, 'L'Orient Romanesque', p. 88-91 and Pascal Pia; 'Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Erotiques', p. 30-31 "Le XVIIIe siècle se reconnaissait dans ce miroir, mais, si les costumes en étaient rajeunis, nous pourrions encore nous y reconnaître aujourd' hui" (Gay). Hartig & Soboul, p. 50. Cioranescu, 36472. [other editions] Original full calf, red painted edges, spine with raised bands, corners bumped. Some gilded [faded] fleurons at spine.
Book conditionGood
BindingFull Calf
Book size16Mo.15.7 x 10.5 Cm.
Price 275
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