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(CURIOSA.) Les Amours des Dieux Payens. 20 (of 21) engraved plates after Agostino Caracci depicting Greco-Roman deities, mythological figures, et al. copulating in various positions; LACKS FRONTISPIECE. [4], 106; [4], 107 pages. 2 volumes in one.

(CURIOSA.) Les Amours des Dieux Payens. 20 (of 21) engraved plates after Agostino Caracci depicting Greco-Roman deities, mythological figures, et al. copulating in various positions; LACKS FRONTISPIECE. [4], 106; [4], 107 pages. 2 volumes in one. 16mo, modern .5 blue morocco, raised bands and extremities rubbed; plates reinforced in gutters, blank corner of one text leaf restored. "Lampasque: Chez tous les Marchands de Nouveautes," 1802 E1000-2000 The copies in the British Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale described by Kearney (The Private Case 337) and Pia (Les Livres de l'Enfer, page 44) also lack the frontispiece; Gay-Lemmonyer I, 167 calls for 20 plates.

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