(Mouchet) Dictionnaire Portatif, Contenant Les Anecdotes Historiques De L’Amour, Depuis Le Commencement Du Monde Jusqu’ À Ce Jour.  Chez Buisson, Paris, 1788. Two volumes, iv, 564; 600, (ii)pp. Rebound in the mid-19th century in half calf and marbled boards, with raised bands, marbled endpapers and paste downs, and mostly untrimmed. Faults: the marbled boards are a little scuffed in the middle, and there are a few small scuffs to the spine and board edges. Also, a few of the en
ding leaves and beginning leaves have some very good and old repairs where the leaves were unevenly worn and replaced with appropriate paper edging–really a very good repair job, none of which affects the text on the few pages of repair.  $300  Brunet 17891; Barbier 1, 3849. There was a third volume added in 1811, and by 1832 there were five volumes, all together.  

Altogether there are somewhere in the vicinity of 400 entries in the two volumes, covering l’amour in its many varieties, flavors, and avenues.  

• “Oui Amour Amour quand tu nous tiens, on peut bieu dire; adieu prudence.” La Fontaine (from the title page)

The American Bibliopolist, Volume 3, 1871, calls it “very scarce” and is offered for sale at $15, which is about $400 in 2017 according to the BLS CPI calculator.