Le Cousin de Mahomet, et La Folie Salutaire. Histoire plus que Galante. Premiere (Seconde) Partie.
Leiden : Chez les Freres Vamberk. 1742. First Edition, 2 vols in one, 12mo, title-page, pps 1-188 + title-page, pps 1-240, contemporary calf, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, edges stained red, marbled endpapers, corners worn, joints split but cords firm.
This romance, set inTurkey, and “plus que galante” was put on the Index by the French police in 1822 and in the same year a considerably expurgated version was published by Octave Uzanne.
It is rare; there is no copy in COPAC and CcFf locates 5 copies only.
Reference: Cioranescu 18me. 29878 Gay-Lemonnyer Vol. 1 col. 754
Stock No: HMF1387
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