[Rarebooks] FS: Licentious suppressed 17th c. satire on the lives of priests & monks

[Kenneth Karmiole]

[Dupre, abbe of Lyons]. LE MOINE SECULARISE Augmente de Nouveau de la Vie des Moines. Suivant Original. Ville Franche (but Holland?): Jean le Grand. No date (but after 1676). 12mo. 191,(1)pp. With the copper engraved frontispiece of the traveling colporteur selling prayers, tracts, rosaries and indulgences. 18th c. red morocco, neatly rebacked with the old spine laid down, gilt ruled borders and dentelles, brown morocco spine label. A.e.g. Leather bookplate of Charles V, D, Elst on front pastedown. Rare.    $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The preface is dated July 1, 1676. One of many editions of this suppressed text, this one with 191 pages. Offensive enough to be placed on the "Index." See Gay-Lemonnyer. BIBLIOGRAPHIE OUVRAGES RELATIFS A L'AMOUR... Vol. III, column 253; BIBLIOTHECA ARCANA #379 (listing a later reprint).

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