[Rarebooks] FS: "Les Princesses Malabares, ou le Celibat Philosophique" 1735. (banned & burned by French Parliament)

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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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