[MEDICINE and CURIOSITIES. 18th century]. - Lot 85

[MEDICINE and CURIOSITIES. 18th century]. LOT OF 18TH-CENTURY BOOKS ON CURIOSITIES AND MEDICINE. -BORDELON or COTOLONDI. The Book Without a Name. Divided into five dialogues. Paris: Michel Brunet, Mercure Galant, 1695. With a frontispiece depicting a harlequin wearing a black mask: “Castigat ridendo mores” (He corrects morals by laughing at them.) A collection of gossip and anecdotes from the world of French theater and “la vie galante” in Toulouse, Avignon, and Montpellier, as well as in Italy and Spain. The privilege indicates that it was granted to Michel Brunet (a bookseller in Paris), who shared it with Hilaire Baritel (of Lyon), who in turn shared it with “Sieur Plaignard and the aforementioned Sieur Baudet [sic].” All editions from 1695 are rare. Printed in Paris by Michel Brunet, there were also co-editions or shared distributions in the provinces (such as in Lyon by Antoine Boudet or Hilaire Baritel). An ink annotation from the period “A new volume is currently being sold, titled *Le Livre sans nom*, in much the same style as *Arliquiniana*, and it seems to be enjoying even greater success, not only because of the short stories it contains, but also because it is filled with a large number of verses, and above all with several odes translated from or imitating Horace, which one reads with pleasure” Duhamel’s gilt monogram on the front cover (?) EFVD; front cover adorned with a beautiful gilt monogram “E.F.V.D.” surrounded by a palm-and-crown motif; spine with unidentified decorative ribbing -The Society of Free Farters. Liberty is our motto. The ART of farting. Black copperplate-engraved frontispiece depicting the Bastille, whose cannons are f... (figures facing right). 2nd edition? (2)-109-216 pp To Count de Vent Sec et Bruyant, Lord of Pet-en-ville Peti in--12, finely grained fawn calfskin, worn edges, smooth spine decorated with red morocco -3 antique works on onanism and venereal diseases. Contemporary binding. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.