Discours prodigieux et veritable d’une fille de chambre, laquelle a produict un monstre, apres auoir eu la compagnie d’un singe, en la ville de Messine [...] Iouxte la copie imprimé à Paris par Fleury Bourriquant.

8vo: 15-[1 bl.] pp. (toned, some spotting and dampstaining).

Mod. vellum over boards (warping). Good copy.

Unique copy (?) of a Rouen ed. of the story about a girl having given birth to a monster after having had intercourse with an ape. This popular "horror" story (about women who prefer apes to men - King Kong!) is situated in Messina (town of Scylla and Charibdis!). The Paris ed. is now dated 1598 (Pettegree FB 16263). Abraham Cousturier was active in Rouen 1592-1643. Woodcut on title (monster). Ref. Pierre Louÿs (Rev. des livres anciens, 1914) 220-223. - Cp. Gay/Lemonnier I:925-926 (Paris ed.). - Not in BnF, Goldsmith (BL), Le livre populaire, WorldCat. Prov. [Georges Petit].