[Rarebooks] FS: Condemned work of French fiction. 1735

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[Longue, Louis Pierre de]. LES PRINCESSES MALABARES, OU LE CELIBAT 
PHILOSOPHIQUE. Ouvrage Interessant & Curieux, avec des Notes Historiques & Critiques. 
Tranquebar (Amsterdam?): Thomas Franco. 1735. Sm. 8vo. (16),200,(6)pp. Title 
printed in red & black. Cont. mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, rubbed & spine 
label lacking. Interesting cont. early marbled endpapers.     $375.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
The first edition of this work, published in 1734, was condemned by the 
French Parliament and ordered to be burned – more for anti-religious content than 
moral issues. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 861-2.

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