[CURIOSA] - NERCIAT (Andréa de). - Lot 68

[CURIOSA] - NERCIAT (Andréa de). Les Aphrodites ou fragments thali-priapiques pour servir à l'histoire du plaisir. S.l. [Brussels: Poulet Malassis, Alphonse Lécrivain], 1793-1864. - 4 volumes small in-8, 156x103: frontispiece, (2 ff.), III, 158 pp. (1 f.), 2 plates; (2 ff.), 163 pp. (2 ff.), 2 plates; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 162 pp. (1 f.), 2 plates; (2 ff.), 186 pp. (1 f.), 2 plates. Dark green half-maroquin, ornate ribbed spine, marbled edges (period binding). Dutel, A-93. Published in Brussels in 1864 by Auguste Poulet Malassis and Alphonse Lécrivain, probably 150 copies. It is illustrated with a frontispiece by Félicien Rops and 8 free plates after those by the Swiss engraver Sigmund Freidenberg published in the 1793 original. A good copy, on laid paper, with a bistre chine proof of the Rops frontispiece, and a second frontispiece by F. Lukkow from Vital Puissant's 1872 Brussels edition, placed at the head of the third volume. Slight rubbing to spine ends. Cut on the edge of the first cover of the last volume. Some foxing and minor dampstaining to some plates. Freckles on frontispiece printed in red by Rops. The plate between pages 76 and 77 of the first volume is partly disbound.