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Joannis Meursii Elegantiæ Latini sermonis, seu, Aloisia Sigæa Toletana de arcanis amoris & veneris : adjunctis fragmentis quibusdam eroticis : pars prima[-secunda].
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chorier, Nicolas, 1612-1692.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Erotic literature--Early works to 1800.
- Erotic literature.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. : ill. ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Elegantiæ Latini sermonis
- Aloisia Sigæa Toletana de arcanis amoris & veneris
- Fingerprint:
- isii s,o) i-am an&i (3) 1757 (R) v.1
- ema- ret, ins, mabr (3) 1757 (R) v.2
- Place of Publication:
- Lugd. Batavorum [i.e. Paris] : Ex typis Elzevirianis [i.e. Barbou], MDCCLVII [1757]
- Notes:
- Authorship variously ascribed, but now generally recognized as the work of Nicholas Chorier. Cf. Grässe.
- The earliest known edition, published without date about 1658-1660, has title: Aloisiæ Sigæa Toletanæ satyra Sotadica de arcanis amoris et veneris ...
- Fictitious imprint. Actually printed in Paris by Barbou. Cf. Willems.
- Signatures: v. 1: *² a⁸ b⁴(-b4?) A-N⁸ O² (leaf *2 signed *) ; v. 2: a² A-K⁸ L⁶ (leaf a2 signed a).
- Pagination: v. 1: [2], xxiv, 211, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates ; v. 2: [4], 172 pages.
- Woodcut title vignettes and tail-pieces.
- Local Notes:
- Elzevier copy has partially effaced ms. note in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper; ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on verso of blank leaf preceding back free endpaper; ms. note in pencil at head of leaf a1r.
- Elzevier copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Rulon-Miller Books.
- Elzevier copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy laid in.
- Elzevier copy bound in full contemporary mottled calf; boards double-ruled in gold; gold-tooled cover edges; gold-tooled spine; gold-stamped red morocco spine label ("MERUSII ELEGANT"); marbled endpapers; red silk marker; all edges stippled red.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the E. B. Krumbhaar Fund.
- Cited in:
- Copinger, H.B. Elzevier press, 896
- Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, IV, p. 510
- Willems, A. Elzevier, 2178
- OCLC:
- 43127984
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