ANCILLON, Charles Lot n° 5

RECTIFICATIVE " This is most likely the original edition. In fact, the Harvard on-line catalogue (Hollis) describes the copy of another edition published the same year, probably in Berlin, with a different snack, the work ending on page H10. Harvard on-line points out ours and its different collation, mentioning that it ends on folio I2 like the Polaillon copy, but Harvard on-line does not establish any antecedence between these two editions. It is however customary to acknowledge that the longer version is the original (Polaillon) and the shorter is the forgery (Harvard). " Treatise on eunuchs, in which all the different kinds of eunuchs are explained, what rank they held, & what case they were made of them [Holland], 1707 Rare treatise on eunuchs and castration, dedicated to the philosopher Pierre Bayle Original edition In-12 (158 x 88mm). Typographical mark with the sphere held by an arm. Snack: (10 ff.), 187 pp. with the last three pp. incorrectly ciphered. Binding of the period. Ivory vellum with rigid covers, red edges. References: Gay III, 1239 -- Caillet I, 39.