EROTIC PLATES BASED ON ANTIQUE GEMS [D'HANCARVILLE, PIERRE FRAN€OIS HUGUES, BARON.]

Monuments du Culte Secret des dames Romaines. Engraved frontispiece and 50 plates of priapic subjects after gems. [2], 16, 98 pages. 4to, contemporary tree calf with gilt borders and spine, morocco title label, 2-inch camouflaged rub mark on front cover, other mild rubbing. Rome: de l'imprimerie du Vatican, 1790 Best known for his magnificent publication of Sir William Hamilton's Vases in 1766, d'Hancarville also published two pornographic works with illustrations based upon antique gems: Veneres et Priapi ut observantur in gemmis antiquis (c. 1775), later reissued as Monumens de la vie priv‚e des douze C‚zars, 1780, and this work, its companion volume. Vinet 1633 (for the 1780 edition); not in Cicognara.