[CHORIER, Nicolas (1612-92)]. Aloisiæ Sigæae toletanæ satyra sotadica de arcanis amoris & veneris.

[CHORIER, Nicolas (1612-92)]. Aloisiæ Sigæae toletanæ satyra sotadica de arcanis amoris et veneris. Editio nova, emendatior et auctior. Accessit colloquium ante hac non editum, Fescennini ex M.S. recens reperto. Amsterdam [?but Geneva]: [no publisher], 1678. 3 parts bound in one volume, 12mo (139 x 82mm). (Old signature excised from corner of title, hole in E7 with loss of letters, corner of A5 in third part torn away, variable but mostly light spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots.) Contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed, joints split). Provenance: later annotation on front free endpaper; some later pencil highlighting and sparse annotation; modern typed note tipped-onto rear pastedown exonerating “the guiltless Aloisia” from any involvement in this scandalous work; from the Library of the late Sir George Engle. The first complete edition of "the most outspoken erotic work of the 17^th-century" (Kearney, A History of Erotic Literature, pp. 34-46), written in the form of a series of dialogues between Tullia, a twenty-six-year-old Italian woman, who is charged with the sexual initiation of her young cousin, Ottavia. Though the text claims to be a Latin translation by Johannes Meursius of a Spanish work by the 16th-century poet Aloisa Sigea de Velasco, the true author, Nicolas Chorier, was a French lawyer and historian. The first edition, which included the first 6 dialogues only, was published c. 1660; this is the first complete edition which includes a seventh and final dialogue. Brunet VII, 1021: "Édition tout aussi rare que les précédentes.”