[Banned book] Lucina sine Concubitu. Lettre addressée à la Societé Royale de Londres,

dans laquelle on prouve, par une évidence incontstable, tirée de la raison & de la pratique, qu'une femme peut concevoir, sans avoir de commerce avec aucun homme. Traduit sur la quatrième edition angloise [by Moet], avec un commentaire trés curieux, qui ne s'est pas encore trouvé dans les editions précedentes. d'Abraham Johnson [= Sir John Hill]. London, no publisher, 1750, (16),72 p., each page with typographical border decoration, contemporary calf with ribbed and gilt back, 12mo.

Gay-Lemonnyer II, 917; Rose 2320 (2nd edition from the same year); cf. De Vries 477a (2nd Dutch ed., The Hague, 1779). Fine copy of the first French edition of a lovely satire on women who claimed to have become pregnant without having slept with a man. This first French edition was confiscated upon release and condemned to be burned by the French government, but was nevertheless reprinted many times and translated into various languages. An answer to our letter exists by Richard Roe, from the same year and with place London [= Netherlands], in which the opposite happens: Concubitus sine Lucina, ou le plaisir sans peine (sleeping with a man without becoming pregnant). Not surprisingly, the books are occasionally found together.