Denis Diderot / Berthommé Saint André - Les Bijoux indiscrets - 1781
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Two volumes bound in cuir to form an illustrated edition of Les Bijoux indiscrets by Denis Diderot and Berthommé Saint André, in French, original language, published circa 1781 by Au Monomotapa, totaling 468 pages with a frontispiece and five of six engravings, in bon condition.
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Rare two-volume set enriched with a frontispiece and 5 (of 6) engravings hors texte of this philosophical, satirical, and libertine tale in which Diderot uses a wondrous and deliberately scandalous plot to observe and critique the mores, institutions, romantic behaviors, social ambitions, and intellectual foibles of the society of his time.
The narrative takes place in an imaginary kingdom inspired by Africa as imagined by eighteenth-century Europeans and features Mangogul, young sultan of the Congo, who receives from the genius Cucufa a magical ring capable of making the female sexual organs speak aloud.
This extraordinary device constitutes the main driver of the novel, for the women’s “jewels” can hence publicly reveal their experiences, desires, adventures, and the secrets that their owners usually seek to conceal.
Diderot thus transforms a libertine joke into a tool of social observation, since giving voice to the “jewels” exposes a truth that the human characters constantly try to hide. The ring’s magical power becomes a kind of revelation device that lays bare the contradictions between respectable appearances and real behaviors.
Denis Diderot / Berthommé Saint André - Les Bijoux indiscrets - SD (circa 1781) - Tome I et II - Au Monomotapa - 220 + 248 pages -
Good condition of bindings, works in their full tawny calf marbled leather of the period, wear from use, some minor defects on the covers, corners worn, marbled fly-leaves with speckled edges on gilding, smooth spine adorned, gold roulette on the edges, gilded titles and tomes on green morocco pieces, triple golden fillets framing the boards -
Good interior condition, slight browning, small vignette on the title page, works enriched with a frontispiece and 5 (of 6) engravings hors texte, fairly clean text, rare clandestine edition attributed to CAZIN, reduced-copy of the edition published by REY in 1772, marbled endpapers in decent condition, good exemplar -
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Rare two-volume set enriched with a frontispiece and 5 (of 6) engravings hors texte of this philosophical, satirical, and libertine tale in which Diderot uses a wondrous and deliberately scandalous plot to observe and critique the mores, institutions, romantic behaviors, social ambitions, and intellectual foibles of the society of his time.
The narrative takes place in an imaginary kingdom inspired by Africa as imagined by eighteenth-century Europeans and features Mangogul, young sultan of the Congo, who receives from the genius Cucufa a magical ring capable of making the female sexual organs speak aloud.
This extraordinary device constitutes the main driver of the novel, for the women’s “jewels” can hence publicly reveal their experiences, desires, adventures, and the secrets that their owners usually seek to conceal.
Diderot thus transforms a libertine joke into a tool of social observation, since giving voice to the “jewels” exposes a truth that the human characters constantly try to hide. The ring’s magical power becomes a kind of revelation device that lays bare the contradictions between respectable appearances and real behaviors.
Denis Diderot / Berthommé Saint André - Les Bijoux indiscrets - SD (circa 1781) - Tome I et II - Au Monomotapa - 220 + 248 pages -
Good condition of bindings, works in their full tawny calf marbled leather of the period, wear from use, some minor defects on the covers, corners worn, marbled fly-leaves with speckled edges on gilding, smooth spine adorned, gold roulette on the edges, gilded titles and tomes on green morocco pieces, triple golden fillets framing the boards -
Good interior condition, slight browning, small vignette on the title page, works enriched with a frontispiece and 5 (of 6) engravings hors texte, fairly clean text, rare clandestine edition attributed to CAZIN, reduced-copy of the edition published by REY in 1772, marbled endpapers in decent condition, good exemplar -
Delivery service guaranteed within a few days -
Details
Number of books
2
Subject
History, Illustrated, Literature, Philosophy
Book title
Les Bijoux indiscrets
Author/ Illustrator
Denis Diderot / Berthommé Saint André
Condition
Good
Publication year oldest item
1781
Edition
Illustrated Edition
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Au Monomotapa
Binding/ Material
Leather
Number of pages
468
