(CURIOSA.) [Bourdon, Louis-Gabriel.] Le Parc au Cerf; ou, L'Origine de l'Affreux Deficit. Par un Zele Patriote. 4 engraved plates. 191 pages. 8vo, 19th century .25 sheep, spine slightly faded and scuffed;single tiny wormhole in blank outer margins

(CURIOSA.) [Bourdon, Louis-Gabriel.] Le Parc au Cerf; ou, L'Origine de l'Affreux Deficit. Par un Zele Patriote. 4 engraved plates. 191 pages. 8vo, 19th century .25 sheep, spine slightly faded and scuffed;single tiny wormhole in blank outer margins throughout, light offsetting from frontispiece onto title. Paris: "sur les debris de laBastille," 1790 E300-500 FIRST EDITION of an expose of the debaucheryat Louis XV's private seraglio on the grounds of Versailles. The plates show women entering the park; the Duchesse de Chateauroux; theMarquise de Pompadour; and the banker Peixotte and a courte-san at play. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 631; Kearney, The Private Case 281.