DORAT.

-*Les Tourterelles de Zelmis*, a poem in three cantos. By the author of *Barnevelt*.

S.l.n.d. (Paris, Jarry, 1766).

Small 8vo, (2)-56 pp., black-and-white illustration. Late 19th-century terracotta morocco, ribbed spine decorated with gilt panels, gilt title, covers decorated with gilt frames and scrolls, enhanced with volutes and foliage, all framed by a gilt border, gilt edges, gilt garlands on the inside covers, laid paper endpapers, gilt border on the fore-edges, guilloché caps [Morales Poitiers] (a few scattered pinholes).

A very fine copy with full margins.

Illustrated with a finely engraved frontispiece title page, a figure at the front of the text, a vignette in the header and a tailpiece after Eisen and engraved by de Longueil.

In a fine morocco binding signed Morales Poitiers on the second half-cover.

Preceded by a reflection on the erotic poem, pp. 4–20.

Cohen-Ricci, 323.

-Letter from Zeïla, a young savage, slave in Constantinople, to Valcourt, a French officer… Paris, 1764. 40 pp. Bound with Valcourt’s Reply, 1766, 42 pp. and followed by Ovid’s Letter to Julie, preceded by a prose letter to M. Diderot. Paris, 1767. 32 pp.

Black-and-white engravings after Eisen.

19th-century Jansenist red morocco, signed Reymann, with guilloché headbands, gilt edges, double gilt fillet on the fore-edges, and a gilt garland on the spine

A fine copy with wide margins in a morocco binding signed Reymann.

Cohen-Ricci, 318.