Traité des eunuques, dans lequel on explique toutes les différentes sortes d'eunuques, quel rang ils ont tenu, & quel cas on en a fait, &c. On éxamine [sic] principalement s'ils sont propres au mariage, et s'il leur doit être permis de se marier. Et l'on fait plusieurs remarques curieuses & divertissantes à l'occasion des eunuques, &c.

12mo: [20]-187 pp. (some foxing).

Morocco "citron" signed Capé, gilt-ruled covers orn. "à la Du Seuil", gilt orn. spine with raided bands, gilt orn. inside dentelles, gilt edges (ink spots). Nice copy.

First edition. Two issues with the same sphera and collation were published at the same time. Ours, has the sphera without arms and is signed C. d'Ollincan (anagram for Ancillon) at the dedication to Pierre Bayle. The French protestant and historian Ancillon (1659-1715) studies more particularly the question of the eunuchs marriage and examines if the divine and civil laws would permit it.
Ref. Barbier IV:780. - Conlon, Prélude, 13647. - BGL III:1239. - Caillet 275. - Blake 14. - BnF. - COPAC (= Wellcome Libr.). - STCN (2).
Prov. Edward Davies Davenport (1778-1847), English army officer and politician (armorial bookpl.). - Edward Locke Tomlin (id.).