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178127911Paris: Chez Demonville 1781. First edition. xvi 462 2pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf worn and rubbed joints split but cords holding head and foot of spine chipped internally very good. First edition. xvi 462 2pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Fournel 1745-1820 was a well--known legal writer and a famous lawyer wrote a large number of legal books including this curious work filled with interesting cases on seduction. He wrote a similar legal study of adultery. Gay III: 1237 Chez Demonville unknown
186234794Paris: Jules Gay 1862. First edition No. 74 of 115 copies. 119pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Half tan calf and marbled boards with the original yellow printed wrappers bound in. First edition No. 74 of 115 copies. 119pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Memoirs of an eighteenth-century cross-dresser published here for the first time except for one fragment from manuscript located in the library of Arsenal. Gay-Lemonnyer I 315 Jules Gay unknown
1885242732Paris : Chez tous les libraires 1885. Headpieces and initial capitals printed in red and black. 96 2; 89 3 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. Original yellow wrappers printed in red and black. Slight soiling to wrappers upper joing of first volume very slightly starting at foot of spine but a pristine unopened copy. In half red morocco slipcase with chemise. Headpieces and initial capitals printed in red and black. 96 2; 89 3 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. "Written with care this little work constitutes an interesting document of the mores of the time" Pauvert "Dictionnaire des oeuvres erotiques". The first edition was published in Bruxelles in 1870 with an Amsterdam imrint and the present edition has been dated around 1885 by Perceau but apparently without any evidence. It has been ascribed to Gustave Droz or his son and to Paul Perret Leghorn The Horn Book but the author remains unknown.<br /> <br /> Collection of fiften erotic tales in which the unknown author ".doesn't shrink from using the liveliest of expressions ." Gay. Perceau 41-4; Pia 1395; Private Case 1430 1st ed.; Gay III:1174 1st ed. Chez tous les libraires unknown
303742np. One plate of monks feasting and a lady coming in. 10; 20 pp. In verse 243 lines with notes following. Wrappers Vg some soiuling. One plate of monks feasting and a lady coming in. 10; 20 pp. In verse 243 lines with notes following. Verse satire directed against the monks and temporal extension of papal power. With a prose introduction and notes. References to Bayle Locke et al. World Cat 2 locations Univ. of Chicago; Univ. of Fl. unknown
1896313583London: printed and published by Henry Robinson Fleet Street 1896. First edition. 118 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern cloth with morocco spine label t.e.g. original ochre wrappers bound in. Wrappers dust-soiled otherwise near fine. First edition. 118 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Private Case 1713; Mendes 98-A printed and published by Henry Robinson, Fleet Street unknown
178127909Londres Paris: Cazin 1781. Third edition. Auxquels on a joint l'Histoire d'une Comédienne qui a quitté le Spectacle; & l'Origine des Bijoux indiscrets Conte. 2 212pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Contemporary calf red leather spine label. Small marginal stain at lower right corner throughout otherwise very good. Third edition. Auxquels on a joint l'Histoire d'une Comédienne qui a quitté le Spectacle; & l'Origine des Bijoux indiscrets Conte. 2 212pp. 1 vols. 16mo. A classic of galanterie this is the first edition which contains L'HISTOIRE d'UNE COMEDIENNE by le Comte de Caylus with separate title page but continuous pagination. Gay cites a contemporary critic Clément who remarked on LES SONNETTES: "Voici une jolie petite nouvelle . Ces mémoires sont écrits avec avec une gaieté d'imagination tout à fait séduisante . " Barbier III: 530b; Gay III: 1134 [Cazin] unknown
183424966Paris: Perrotin Editeur 1834. Ornée de 104 Vignettes en Taille-Douce desinées par les peintres les plus celèbres. Including Charlet Grandville Grenier Raffet etc. 4 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary dark half blue morocco over marbled boards two hinges repaired else fine. Johannot Tony. Ornée de 104 Vignettes en Taille-Douce desinées par les peintres les plus celèbres. Including Charlet Grandville Grenier Raffet etc. 4 vols. 8vo. Inserted are 8 Erotic plates by Tony Johannot Gay Bibliographie de l'Armour III p. 477. Perrotin, Editeur unknown
1700258206N.p. France 1700. 95 engravings on CHINA PAPER mounted to larger sheets inluding an engraved portrait of La Fontaine each identified and numbered by hand in pencil. 1 vols. 1-1/2 x 2-1/4 inches Images ; 10-1/2 by 7-1/2 most mounts. Bound into a single volume in modern red buckram lettered in gilt on spine; "FROM A QUAKER'S COLLECTION". Flyleaf docketed in pencil "From the Collection of T. Wistar Brown" and with the bookplate of Brown's son-in-law Henry Goddard Leach. Some occasional foxing to mounts images quite clean. 95 engravings on CHINA PAPER mounted to larger sheets inluding an engraved portrait of La Fontaine each identified and numbered by hand in pencil. 1 vols. 1-1/2 x 2-1/4 inches Images ; 10-1/2 by 7-1/2 most mounts. T. Wistar Brown was the descendant of the Philadelphia Quaker family of Moses Brown and Mary Wain Wistar. Author and poet Henry Goddard Leach married T. Wistar Brown's daughter Agnes. unknown
1928LD20009Paris: Jules Meynial 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. One of 150 copies. Contemporary brown morocco by Viau & Zonen. Illustrated by Maurice Lalau. A beautiful book. Makes for a great wedding gift. <br/><br/> Jules Meynial hardcover
180237632A Lampsaque Paris: chez tous les Marchands de Nouveautés 1802. Orné de vingt figures. 20 engraved erotic plates. 4 106 4 107 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Nineteenth-century three quarter blue morocco some rubbing at extremities. One leaf cropped at corner margin by binder with repair no loss scattered foxing plates bright. Very good. Orné de vingt figures. 20 engraved erotic plates. 4 106 4 107 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The engravings show the erotic play of Graeco-Roman deities and mythological figures such as Mars and Venus Jupiter and Juno satyrs and nymphs as well as of mortals such as Antony and Cleopatra Messalina Ovid and the daughter of Augustus "Julie". The text briefly describes the mythical figures depicted in a variety of postures. Gay-Lemmonyer attributes its authorship to Croze-Magnan. An attractive copy of a scarce book. Kearney The Private Case 337; Pia Les Livres de l'enfer p. 44; Gay Lemmonyer I 167 260-261 chez tous les Marchands de Nouveautés unknown
266005Paris n.d. later 19th century. Half-title title and 12 printed caption leaves with passage in Latin each followed by an etching on papier de chine. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter citron levant and marbled boards spine gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed by P. Huban. Engraved book label by Provost-Blondel a helmet with motto Toujours en Face. First two plates with light marginal staining at lower right. Fine. Half-title title and 12 printed caption leaves with passage in Latin each followed by an etching on papier de chine. 1 vols. 8vo. Suite of a dozen finely executed erotic etchings each interpreting a biblical passage with printed captions in the Vulgate.<br /> Genesis 3 - Adam and Eve before the tree with sign Defense de Toucher à l'Arbre de Vits<br /> Genesis 18 - group sodomy scene three men with turbans one youth one woman<br /> Genesis 19 - two women and a bearded man at the mouth of a cave<br /> Genesis 38 - desert scene man and woman joined another woman attending with a fan<br /> Genesis 39 - oriental boudoir woman grasping the man<br /> Judith 13 - classical interior woman atop the man on cushions<br /> Daniel 13 - two old men surprising a young woman at a pool<br /> Kings 11 - David descending the staircase with a lyre in foreground two dark women attending a fair woman at a pool<br /> John 1 - Vox clamantis in deserto. Man and woman atop a sphinx bearded prophet and Egyptian hieroglyphics on the plinth<br /> John 1 - Et Verbum caro factum est. Angel joined with a young woman leaning on a carpenter's bench <br /> Matthew 24 - Vidertis abominationem desolationis. Solder raping a woman in the foreground of a scene of military carnage<br /> Amen - two couples in the foreground of a walled enclosure of erect phalluses with banners Grande Exposition de Vits. Not in Darlow & Moule unknown