Author: [JUNQUIÈRES, Jean-Baptiste de]
Title: Caquet-Bonbec, la poule à ma tante. Poème badin. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée d'un chant.
Description: [Paris, Pancoucke], 1764. Morocco-backed boards with gilt spine (19th century). 78 p. Finely engraved frontispiece (girl in the kitchen with chicken and egg (and box bed, cat and cabbage) by H.-F. Gravelot. With nice typographical vignettes. New, improved edition supplemented with a song (1st edition 1763). Spine damaged and somewhat worn at the edges. With label 'Aus der Bücherei von Fedor v. Zobeltitz' and some old notes on the endpapers. Naughty biography of 'my aunt's chicken', that is, a beautiful girl, in which the clergy are strongly censured. Cohen (Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle, 6th ed., 1912) col. 523-524. Fedor von Zobeltitz, a German author and great book collector (1857-1934), had his first book collection auctioned in 1910 by auctioneer friend Martin Breslauer. His second one was purchased by the German Reich in 1921 and donated to the city of Leuven as a reparation payment for the library destroyed by the Germans in 1914.

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