The Pleasures of Human Life:...in a Dozen Dissertations on Male, Female, and Neuter Pleasures... By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co...

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Sale 370: Fine Literature with Books from the Collection of Jesse G. Heiges; Inventory of Jeffrey Thomas Pt.II (#370) 12/13/2007 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #585The Pleasures of Human Life:...in a Dozen Dissertations on Male, Female, and Neuter Pleasures... By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co...

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$187.50

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Sale 370: Fine Literature with Books from the Collection of Jesse G. Heiges; Inventory of Jeffrey Thomas Pt.II (#370) 12/13/2007 1:00 PM PST Closed
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zzc(Rowlandson, Thomas)

Title:

The Pleasures of Human Life:...in a Dozen Dissertations on Male, Female, and Neuter Pleasures... By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co...

Author:

[Britton, John]

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme

Date Published:

1807

Description:

xvi, 223 pp. With 5 hand-colored etched plates by Thomas Rowlandson; hand-tinted stipple-engraved frontispiece & added pictorial title-page. 6¼x3¾, period tree calf, morocco spine label. First Edition.

Scarce satirical offering with Rowlandson's inimitable illustrations, instigated, apparently, by James Beresford's "Miseries of human life; or, The groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy", 1806.

Condition:

Spine scuffed and pock-marked, ends and edges worn, joints cracked; light staining and foxing to added title-page and frontispiece, bookseller's catalogue entry affixed to top of "Deprecatory Advertisment" leaf following title-page, else very good, with the bookplate of Winifred Perry.

Item#:

178769

Headline:

Thomas Rowlandson's Pleasures of Human Life
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