[DU LAURENS, Henri Joseph.] L'Arretin. Rome [Amsterdam:] Aux dépens de la Congrégation de l'Index, 1763. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (153 x 94mm.) 1p. errata to rear of vol. 2. (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal insect damage from *6 - A5 of vol. 1., long hand-written description of author's life in early 19th century manuscript hand on initial blank.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Note: an erotic and anti-clerical work for which du Laurens was hounded out of France. He fled to Holland, then Germany and died in a convent in Mainz, aged 74 (2).