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L’Enfant Gate, ou le Debauche de la Haye. Detalant les principales fourberies de notre temps. Premiere Partie [Seconde Partie]

Delft : Chez Pierre Boll. 1682. 12mo, 2 vols in 1, [viii], 177, and [ii], 164 pp, fine engraved frontispiece to each part and 6 engravings in Part 1, some signatures browned, later full calf roll-tooled in blind, fine.
Gay/Lemonnyer records this title with just one word “rare” and OCLC locates only 2 copies, both in the British Library and adds [Translated from "Het Kind van Weelde," etc.] Of this Dutch original we trace a single copy in the Dutch National Library.

OCLC: 1064802683 Gay/Lemonnyer Vol. 2. 103
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Only one copy recorded - in the Bibliotheque nationale de France

[REGNIER, Mathurin (1573-1613)] and [MAYNARD, Francois (1582-1646)] et al.
Cabinet Satyrique, ou Recueil parfaict des vers picquans et gaillards de ce temps, tiré des secrets cabinets des sieurs de Sygognes, Régnier, Motin, Berthelot, Maynard et autres des plus signalez poètes de ce siècle. Dernière édition, reveue, corrigee, et de beaucoup augmentee.

Paris : Jouxte la coppie imprimee a Rouen. 1634. 8vo, [iv], 734, [16] pps, contemporary vellum, yapp fore-edges, title lettered in ink on spine, a very sound copy.
First published in 1618, and inevitably much reprinted even into the twentieth century, the present edition of this well-known collection of satirical, erotic and scatalogical verse by some of the best poets in that genre is recorded by OCLC in only one copy, that in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. “Un recueil fort remarkable et fort connu, des meilleures poesies licencieuses du temps” [Gay/Lemonnyer]

OCLC 457640399 BnF FRBNF31189484 Gay / Lemonnyer Vol.1 442
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With the rare Cinquieme Partie, finely bound by Thouvenin

[LETI, Gregorio (1630-1701)]
Les Amours de Messaline, Ci-devant Reine de l’Isle d’Albion.... Nouvelle Edition revue, corrigee, & augmentee d’une Cinquieme Partie. Ville-Franche: Chez Jeremie Plantie 1693

1693. 12mo, 240pp, 19th century hard-grain red morocco, blind-stamped borders enclosed by a single gilt fillet, spine with 5 raised bands, decorated in gilt and blind, by Thouvenin, signed in blind at foot of spine, a.e.g. very fine.
First published in 1689 in Four Parts, this new edition contains a Fifth Part on pages 185 - 240. The present edition is rare. CcF finds only two copies, Toulon and Lyon, no copy in Bibliotheque Nationale; OCLC locates 4 copies in Germany, Mannheim, Hamburg, Potsdam and Dresden, and 2 in US, Texas and Wisconsin; apparently no copy in UK.
A scurrilous account of a scandalous affair between Louis XIV of France and Mary of Modena, wife of James II…
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1693. 12mo, 240pp, 19th century hard-grain red morocco, blind-stamped borders enclosed by a single gilt fillet, spine with 5 raised bands, decorated in gilt and blind, by Thouvenin, signed in blind at foot of spine, a.e.g. very fine.
First published in 1689 in Four Parts, this new edition contains a Fifth Part on pages 185 - 240. The present edition is rare. CcF finds only two copies, Toulon and Lyon, no copy in Bibliotheque Nationale; OCLC locates 4 copies in Germany, Mannheim, Hamburg, Potsdam and Dresden, and 2 in US, Texas and Wisconsin; apparently no copy in UK.
A scurrilous account of a scandalous affair between Louis XIV of France and Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England which, although the author claims in his preface “...on ne doit pas s’imaginer que la fiction ait quelque part dans cette Histoire.” has no proven historical truth. It is claimed to be a translation of an English anti-catholic work attacking the monarch’s conversion to catholicism. This would appear to be “The Amours of Messalina, late Queen of Albion... by a Woman of Quality” [Wing A3023]

Gay/ Lemonnyer vol.1 col.149 Brunet I, 244
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