Pigoreau

Le Panorama des boudoirs, ou l'Empire des Nairs
One of the first great but almost unknown feminist books, admired by Schiller, Goethe, Godwin, Burr and which influenced Carlisle, Percy and Mary Shelley, Suzanne Volquin and Flora Tristan.

First edition of an extraordinary rarity, with a new title page with the Pigoreau address and enriched with four color-enhanced frontispieces, including one folding.

Contemporary bindings in half blonde sheep, spines decorated with gilt finishing tools and fillets and title pieces and volume labels in...

First edition published anonymously.
Half caramel calf binding, smooth spine decorated with a wide gilt garland and gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, discreet restorations to the joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.
Rare and handsome copy attractively bound.

The first edition was published in 1686. Illustrated with three frontispieces after Challiou, engraved by Bovinet.
Contemporary half sheep bindings. Smooth spine with fillets. Black title-label (and volume label). Headcaps rubbed, one worn at volume 1. Some stains.
Caroline de Litchfield, Isabelle de Montolieu's first novel, is a story rich in dramatic twists, written with ease and still read with pleasure today. This novel was published in 1786 simultaneously in Paris and London. Its success was considerable and lasting. There are even paintings inspired by the novel. Reprints are known until 1835 and translations into English, Portuguese, Spanish. Isabelle Pauline Polier de...

New edition adorned with 16 engravings and preceded by a notice by Eugène Bareste.
Half-shagreen binding in brown morocconized leather, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, gilt date at foot, light rubbing to joints, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, bookplate with the name scratched out pasted on a pastedown.
Occasional foxing, some leaves of the first volume browned due to the acidity of 19th-century paper, a very slight tear at head of one leaf in the second volume.