CURIOSA MANDEVILLE (Bernard de). La Vénus populaire, ou Apologie des maisons de joie, translated from the English. Paris, Mercier, s.d. (1796), in-16, title, xij pp., pp. 13-136, 4 pp. of novelties, marbled fawn calf, smooth spine cloisonné and fleuronné, black title-piece, triple gilt fillet on covers, speckled edges (period binding). New edition. True to his universally liberal views avant la lettre, Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733) advocates the reopening of my houses - which he kindly names "Temples à Vénus la Populaire". Gay 1314.