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17564477Paris: s.n. 1756. 12mo 169 x 96 mm. 10 2 blank pages. Woodcut ornament on title. Title soiled. Extra-illustrated with three states of an engraved bust portrait of Mme. Pompadour in two states of which two avant la lettre one in black and one in sepia the latter on very thick paper and one with lettering Mme. de Pompadour. Jansenist blue-green morocco turn-ins gilt gilt edges silk ribbon marker 5 blank leaves at front and 6 at back spine slightly sunned. Provenance: Jules Noilly his gilt monogrammed booklabel sale Paris 15-20 March 1886 lot 432 lot ticket preserved.<br /> <br /> First and apparently only edition of a loosely constructed mildly satirical erotic poem almost a prose poem that pretends to be a self-celebration by Louis XV’s mistress friend and influential advisor Madame de Pompadour. <br /> <br /> Praising her own looks — her skin face eyes mouth and hair even her “two-storey chin†standards of beauty change she moves on to her intelligence wit lack of pretense carefully constructed and other attractions finally circling back to the most enticing part of all for the lascivious male. The culmination of the poem is a rather trite metaphorical description of her “private parts†as a welcoming grotto and the mounting excitement of the daydreaming poetess. In the last lines she shakes herself: “what am I saying where is the rhyme taking me†and she summons a cold shower in the form of “the sad reminder of a husband a mother a hunchbacked prelate and a battleaxe of an Abbess.†The first two references may be to Mme de Pompadour’s husband Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles and to her by then deceased mother Madeleine de La Motte; I have not identified the other two. <br /> <br /> An enlightened patron of literature and the arts Mme de Pompadour would have scoffed at this silly concoction but the generally complimentary if disrespectful tone of the piece implies that it may have been produced by someone in her circle. It is not a Poissonade in the classic sense. The pamphlet was sometimes bound with various editions of Mme de Pompadour’s equally apocryphal letters. <br /> <br /> The Parisian bibliophile Jules Noilly had this fine copy bound by Marius-Michel with three states of a small oval stipple-engraved portrait of Mme de Pompadour which he or the cataloguer of his collection described as “after Céroniâ€; cf. Catalogue de livres rares et curieux anciens et modernes et d'une précieuse collection de livres de l'École Romantique composant la bibliothèque de M. J. Noilly Paris: veuve Labitte 1886 lot 432. s.n. unknown
90077901Japan ca. 1870. Small calico cloth covered accordion album 10 x 13 cm. very good 12 color erotic woodblock prints with 1 b.w. photo layed down on the verso of an old erotic woodcut printa bit of the old silver gilt edges left. RARE! The title slip on the cover is somewhat illegible but possibly can be read: UME TO TORA: PLUM & TIGER. . . WOODBLOCK-COLOR ILLUSTRATED EROTICA . The contents are nicely done showing twelve different scenes of love-making prints of a man and a woman. . 1. & 2. Man on top missionary position shows genital parts. . 3. Man licking her vulva while she holds it open and she licks his penis. . 4. & 5. Man on top making love they exchange tongue kiss. . 6. A Bonze Buddhist priest inserts his fingers into her vulva while he sucks on her nipple . 7. 8. & 9. Woman is on top making love genitals exposed. . 10. 11 & 12. Man is on top love making genitals exposed. CONDITION: The calico covers are a bit dusty the accordion folds are solid not weak or torn. Title slip is rubbed. . Each print is nicely woodblock printed. There is a tiny bit of purple transfer from the end paper on the first & last print. Others clean A nice example of Meiji 1867-1912 period printing by a skilled painter & artist. As usual this work is not signed this kind of erotically illustrated work was banned by the Shogun. Nevertheless this kind of Shunpon erotic book was still widely produced and distributed covertly. . REFERENCE: NOT LISTED IN: SHIBUI Kiyoshi.: ESTAMPS EROTIQUES PRIMITIVES DU JAPON:GENROKU KOHANAGA SHU-E . It is not surprising this and a plethora of other Japanese Shunga Shunpon Erotic prints & books are not listed in Shibui. While he lists many there are even more not listed in his book or any other reference book on the subject. . Erotic books were "suppressed" by the Tokugawa Shogunate therefore the majority of these kinds of books & prints were published on the 'black market' and not distributed openly. They remain on the 'fringe' of publication. There were stiff penalties for artists block cutters and publishers of this category of woodblock printed work. . . unknown
193137799Wien Vienna: Verlag für Kulturforschung 1931. First edition. Illustrated with reproductions of erotic drawings engravings photographs in half-tone and gravure after works by Perckhammer von Bayros Willinger-Lechner Manasse Schein and others. With eight color plates. 192 pp. With 6 mounted photographic prints. 1 vols. 4to. Original gilt-decorated green cloth slightly shaken with faint wear at foot of spine. First edition. Illustrated with reproductions of erotic drawings engravings photographs in half-tone and gravure after works by Perckhammer von Bayros Willinger-Lechner Manasse Schein and others. With eight color plates. 192 pp. With 6 mounted photographic prints. 1 vols. 4to. Compendium of historical cultural social and medical commentary on virginity and defloration with chapters on anatomy demi-vierges infibulation defloration technqiues. This volume in the "Legitimate Erotica" series includes a Facsimile Photo Album "from the Estate of a Defloration Fetishist Who Committed Suicide" with six mounted plates of suggestively posed nudes. Verlag für Kulturforschung unknown
TK0041unknown: no date. . Please view added illustrations online under this description. [no date]. unknown
17165634London: R. Burleigh false imprint for E. Curll 1716. First edition. Bound to style in quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt to spine. All edges marbled. Measuring 185 x 112mm and collating complete including half title: 4 iii 1 blank 39 1 blank. With catchword 'behold' on page 27 and floral ornament above 'Finis' on page 39 as called for. A Fine example unmarked and fresh. A scarce piece of erotic satire ESTC records copies at 11 U.S. institutions. It last sold at auction in 1929 and the present is the only first edition on the market.<br /> <br /> "Begin my Muse and sing in Epick train The Petticoat; Nor shall thou sing in vain The Petticoat will sure reward thy pain!" So opens a satire composed under the pseudonym Mr. Gay used by several of those hacks in Edmund Curll's employ which traces how the amorous adventures of Thyrsis and Chloe were made possible by the latter's fashionable hooped skirt. Finding both humor and seriousness in women's fashion The Petticoat points out how some of the clothing designed to hinder women's movement could actually be adapted to their advantage -- in this case the pursuit and fulfillment of illicit sexual affairs. For just as Thyrsis is able to hide beneath his lover's skirt to conceal himself while pleasing her Chloe is able to share this information with her female coterie including the work's readers. Thus women desirous of hiding lovers of any gender might deploy this ingenious method allowing them to engage in affairs without traveling far from home. An acknowledgement of women's own sexual desire and agency.<br /> <br /> ESTC T43929. Unspeakable Curll 241-242. Not in the Register of Erotic Books. R. Burleigh [false imprint for E. Curll] unknown
17803796London: Printed for S. Bladon 1780. First edition. Contemporary full calf covers decoratively bordered in blind spines with four wide raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt and blind in compartments two green morocco labels lettered in gilt blind-stamped board edges and turn-ins all edges gilt. Some minor wear to a few corners otherwise a near fine set. Volumes 1-6 only of 7. Six octavo volumes 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 197 x 124 mm. Collating 392; 392; 404 384; 426 of 428; 406. Twenty-one of twenty-four fine engraved plates. Volume I lacking two of the engraved plates Daly facing page 39 and Draper facing page 20 and clean inner marginal tear on Q4 pages 5/6; Volume II with light marginal stain on 3A4 pages 59/50; Volume IV Z3 pages 87/88 trimmed at fore-margin; Volume V Z3 pages 55/56 trimmed at fore-margin and lacking last leaf 3H4 pages. 305/306 Address to the Public verso blank; Volume VI lacking one engraved plate Grosvenor facing pages 114. Armorial bookplate on front paste-down of each volume and early ink signature of Thos. Grant at top of title-pages.<br /> <br /> Trials for Adultery was published over a period of two years and was completed in seven volumes with thirty engraved plates. Because of their 'pornographic' nature some or all of the plates are often not found. In our set three of the plates have been excised by a previous owner. "The genre of pornographic trial reports was fully developed in the late 1770s a fact which is borne out by the publication in seven volumes of a special collection of interesting cases Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces. The editor remarks to the reader that 'conjugal infidelity is become so general that it is hardly considered as criminal; especially in the fashionable world'. In view of the many erotic and obscene prints contained in the seven volumes the moral justifications offered in defence of the publication of the trial reports appear quite ridiculous if not hypocritical. Mostly erotic but occasionally also obscene such pictorial material now became a standard feature of trial reports for the rest of the century" Boucé. Printed for S. Bladon unknown
7720Ten cards 181 x 50 mm. all preserved in the orig. folded color-printed wrapper entitled on upper panel Furyu e tanzaku Elegantly Illustrated Tanzaku Cards. Japan: Meiji Era.<br/> <br/> Ten erotic cards issued together each in the tanzaku ban format and accompanied by their original color-printed wrapper. Tanzaku cards were popular in the Meiji era 1868-1912; see Rosina Buckland’s “Erotic Art of the Meiji Era 1868-1912†in Timothy Clark et al. eds. Shunga. Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art British Museum: 2013 pp. 454-55.<br/> <br/> The upper panel of each is very finely color-printed with saturated inks embossing and rich use of metallic pigments revealing the Japanese printer’s art at its best. They all depict men and women engaged in a series of sexual acts. The woodblock-printed lower panels feature the conversations of the couples while engaged in their sexual acts and kyoka poems which are rich in sexual innuendos and racy double-meanings.<br/> <br/> The original wrapper that contains the ten cards has also been very finely color-printed again with saturated colors and embossing.<br/> <br/> In fine condition. unknown
1787046740Neufchâtel et Paris: Guillot 1787. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Binet. 4 volumes in contemporary sponged calf spines darkened and a bit dry light wear at edges scattered light foxing including to plate margins. 300pp; 388pp; 392pp; 380pp with 20 plates and the often missing final two leaves in volume four with a list of further titles available. <br/><br/>Restif de la Bretonne takes on the subject of women here looking at 40 women in 8 categories - he believed this to be one of his finest works as did Palmézaux. Bibliographie et iconographie de tous les ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne 247-250. Size: Octavo 8vo. 4-volume set complete. Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Illustrator: Binet. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Erotica. Inventory No: 046740. Guillot hardcover
88027Paris Vialetay c. 1945. . Three volumes 8vo 26 x 17 cm. 31 hand-coloured pochoir plates monogrammed G.M. each with descriptive letterpress loose as issued in original wrappers.<br /> Witty erotic illustrations depicting 18th century French aristocracy each accompanied by proverbs and verses. Volumes numbered 273 127 and 170 are all from the edition of 300 published clandestinely by Jacques Vialetay rare when complete. <br /> Paris, Vialetay, [c. 1945]. unknown
27048301Japan n.d. ca.1830-1880'S. Green brocade silk covers all edges gilt accordion foldedvery clean & bright copy small nick to bottom edge else excellent contents bright 24 color woodblock prints 12.5 x 9.3 cm.in cloth Chitsu case. . . . A MOST SUPERB EROTIC EXAMPLE . . . COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTED ALBUM . . CONTENTS The album contains two miniature polychrome woodcut print series. Each print is well executed with excellent registry and color care was taken to print them with the utmost quality and attention. This is not one of those quickly produced items lacking quality or refinement. Each print and series is a miniature work of erotic Ukiyo-e art. . The first series of prints are located on the verso or front pages of the album and consist of twelve prints. They show people from Edo period 1604-1868 and clearly from about 1840'S or so. Their hair style and Kimono fashion are of those times. The are done in the colors from that period and appear to have oxidation commensurate with about 140 years or so ago that would put their printing date at around 1868. in the Meiji era. There is very little background text at all but there are cartouches in several. Each print is clean and in excellent condition flawless. . The second series found on the recto or back side of the album and consists of twelve prints in all. The first three have a most unique and stunning silver background six with beige and 3 with indigo or "Aizuri" backgrounds. Each print is uniform within a circular cartouche for the most part and each print is exceptionally clean without flaw. . The work reflects people of the late Edo or early Meiji 1868-1912 period printed about 1869-1870's. . Number 2 shows a man with a huge phallus his hand caressing her vagina. . Number 3 shows the couple fully engaged in love making she is on top. . Number 4 shows the man on top while she locks her arms aroun him in an erotic embrace. . Number 5 is fascinating and RARE ! It shows a silken cord tied around his penis and she holds the cord so she can control its action. This sort of sexual "toy" is rarely shown in Japanese "Shunga" erotic prints. . Number 6 shows a male Buddhist priest or monk. He is fully engaged in licking his lover's vulva as she sucks his erect penis. . COMMENTARIES: The work begins with a couple about to make love he licks two fingers in readiness to insert his huge penis into her vulva she says "Its embarrassing to become like this." . He answers: "Why I am entering." She covers her mouth with here Kimono sleeve in shyness. She says: "Ready to put it in her mouth glug glug." He says "Its coming out to no end of joy." . Numbers 7-12 show couples engaged in love-making all with fascinating and very legible comments."Hayaku soko.iku ."Hurry right there I'm coming" and the like. . There is lots of "Chirishi" hand-made Washi toilet paper strewn around indicating lots of love-making and love juices freely flowing. This is a common erotic symbol and theme often found in Shunga. . RARITY: The work is RARE ! During our tenure of over fifty years we have seldom found Shunpon erotic woodcut books in such excellent and complete condition. . There are a number of very unique and unusual images found in this remarkable erotic album. . The work was clearly kept in the best of condition by some meticulous Japanese collector. Because the album consists of two distinct groups of similar period prints we can only assume it to be the property of a discreet collector from the period. The album's old silk covers and paper matches the print period. . THE GENRE OF JAPANESE EROTICA: This kind of book was banned from being published by the Tokugawa Shogunate. Also banned by the Meiji and Taisho governments. . Erotic woodblock prints "Shunga" & Shumpon erotic woodcut books were secretly drawn carved printed and published "underground." . It was an offence punishment was imprisonment and severe. All publishers had to submit their proposed publications to the government for the "Kiwame" or "Censor's seal" of approval. That "Kiwame" seal was carved into the block as visual proof of sanction. . The fact that all Japanese erotic works completely lacked official approval caused these kinds of books to be sold via a "black market." It is not surprising artists never signed their real name but commonly either did not sign or signed some laughable or ironic false name. . Regardless of any lack of meaningful signature many art historians and students of Japanese woodblock art can identify with an 'educated guess' the school style or the artist by stylistic analysis. Usually this was a giveaway ! . Many famous Ukiyo-e artists disliked being controlled by the government they continued to produce erotic prints and books for 'underground' publication regardless of the law as a means to supplement their meager income. . CONDITION & BINDING: The album is contained in an indigo-blue cloth Chitsu folding case ivory clasps and blank cover title slip. There is some of the old and usual minor fading to the Chitsu cloth. The overall size is 18 x 23.5 cm. . THE SILK COVERS: The green brocade-silk covered album is stunningly clean and bright. There is a small minor nick to the lower edge this does not encroach into the pages. . The album paper is very heavy bright clean and white with no foxing whatsoever. The 24 miniature woodcut prints are held in place by black paper mounting corners they can be removed at will and are not laid down. . Each color miniature woodblock print is exceptionally clean and bright with excellent color and registry. A couple have been restored mending a few old tiny worm holes. These are of minimal impact and are barely noticeable. The work is quite firm and solid. Our habit is to be a bit over critical about condition by and large this is an excellent item in aspects. Please view color digital images posted to our website. . . unknown
23760Northern India: n.p. mid 19th century. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 25 leaves. Ten full page sexually explicit and masterfully painted miniatures nine of which feature a man and a woman and the other a woman and a dog. Printed text. Later non-descript full leather plain black binding. Some leaves are rough at the edges else thsi is in very good condition with superb miniatures.<br /> <p>. n,.p. hardcover
188015604AB1880. Japan ca. 1880 25 : 260 cm 9 scenes on paper mounted on paper scroll. Cloth binding. With detailled erotic scenes in the typical 'Shunga' manner. hardcover
61170c.1920 -30. Oblong quarto 24 x 31 cm Original floral patterned boards string bound. 23 original pen watercolour and gouache drawings c. 17 x 13 cm. with colourful patterned borders overall 20 x 17cm. each mounted recto onto brown card leaves. The illustrations depict semi-clad or naked figures in various couplings mostly male-female set against decorative oriental interior and exterior backgrounds. No text. Binding lightly rubbed at extremities overall excellent condition [c.1920 -30] hardcover
92983c.1850. . Album with 23 partly handcoloured erotic drawings. Somewhat later full calf richly gilt a.e.g. some rubbing.<br /> Reizendes Album nach Art des Liber Amicorum hier allerdings mit erotischem bis schweinösem Inhalt: kleine Bleistiftzeichnungen eines Paares bei allerlei Tätigkeiten auf dem Sofa der Parkbank in freier Wildbahn etc. Dazu Allegorisches mit satirischem Beigeschmack. Diverse Blatt vacat. Insgesamt schön.<br /> c.1850. unknown
1747046963London: H Slater 1747. Third Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original blue wraps corner of cover and title sliced with section of front wrap lacking; front hinge split browning at edges untrimmed spine degraded. A nice unsophisticated copy of the third edition. viii 95 1. List of books at end.<br/><br/>First published in 1699 as a Country Gentlemen's Vade Mecum it's a sort of satirical guide to avoiding vice while actually being a guide to finding it. Published in some profusion in the second half of the 18th century as Cheats of London Exposed but the early editions are all scarce. Warnings for expecting better conversation in London than in the country for tennis courts the theater trapping cock fights gambling guinea dropping prostitutes etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Erotica. Inventory No: 046963. H, Slater unknown
1587044735Lutetiae Paris: Abelis L'Angelier 1587. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Later but likely 17th century half vellum over paste paper boards some soiling and wear. Slight age toning Durant penned to the second title otherwise clean internally. 68 2 blank; 148 3 blank. Register of Erotic Books the 1878 edition and the 1722 English translation. When Bonnefons' Pancharis appeared it was hailed as the finest verse since Catullus whose Baccia it is modeled on - it was so popular that the imitations in French by Durant followed so quickly and without noting the author that it was long thought to be authored by Bonnefons as well. Very rare just 6 copies in OCLC and 1 at auction over the last 30 years. Both works with the privilege leaf and errata at the end. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Erotica. Inventory No: 044735. <br/><br/> Abelis L'Angelier hardcover
9828Three frontis. & 18 double-page color-printed woodblock illus. Colored title-page in Vol. I with gold printing. 15; 11.5; 12.5 folding leaves. Three vols. 12mo 115 x 81 mm. orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers with a few careful repairs orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers new stitching. Japan: late Edo.<br /> <br> <br> <br /> <br /> A very rare shunga with the artist’s pen name KairÅ dÅketsu 開楼童傑 on the title; and the author’s pen name KaikÅsha ShikishŠ開好舎色照 at the end of the Preface. The theme of this work is celebrating the New Year and hoping for a good future.<br /> <br> <br> The books are very finely illustrated with a number of highly complex and skilled images. The volumes use almost all of the techniques that make Japanese illustrated books so wonderful. This late shunga is richly colored and employs bokashi the delicate variation of shading of pigment within the image incredibly delicate embossing and the very ample use of gold silver and copper pigments. The furniture art and sliding doors all suggest a happy present and an auspicious future.<br /> <br> <br> Fine copy. unknown
1784046741Hague 1784. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Near Fine Condition. Binet. 4 volumes in later half morocco over marbled boards. First collected edition of La Paysan and La Paysane Pervertis completely reset and edited - dated 1784 but did not appear until 1787. 16 parts in 4 volumes complete with 120 plates. Quite clean internally a few tiny tears in the outer margin scattered minor foxing. Very slight adhesion in the gutter between title and frontis. 542pp; 536pp; 552pp; 550pp with the two page stock list at the end of volume 4. <br /> <br /> "Rare and almost never found with the full suite of 120 engravings" Bibliographie et iconographie de tous les ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne 250. Le Paysan Pervertis had been published in 1775 La Paysane in 1784 - this brings the two together for the first time. They are erotic novels with a moral compass - in contrast at least notionally to de Sade's Justine which de la Bretonne opposed with his novel Anti-Justine in 1798 or Juliette. Size: Octavo 8vo. 4-volume set complete. Illustrator: Binet. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Erotica. Inventory No: 046741. hardcover
95123early 20th century. . Two loose folded watercolours on paper 56 x 34 cm. Some spotting and foxing some repaired tears.<br /> Erotic art - in letters and pictures - is an eminent part of the cultural heritage of ancient China where lovemaking was considered as a natural practice a sacred duty for both men and women. <br /><br />Albums with explicit drawings were often made for newly married couples as an instruction handbook. Here however the two scenes are rather unconventional illustrating polygamy practices that dominated aristocratic circles in the ancient Chinese society. The first watercolour shows not without a hint of humour two women engaged in a lovemaking game with a man. The second watercolour suggests the importance of self-pleasure for lonely females forced to live in a harem setting.<br /><br />Pieces like these provide a better understanding of Chinese culture that was largely suppressed in the wake of the Cultural Revolution in the mid-XX century. <br /><br /> [early 20th century]. unknown
98168201China c.1820. Wood covers accordion folded album 15 fine color painted leaves each on silk pastels colors executed with a most steady & fine line minor soil covers slightly checked silk border mounted album size is 7.5 x 26 cm.RARE A LOVELY SUITE OF 15 FINE COLOR QING DYNASTY EROTIC CHINESE PAINTINGS. Painting size is ca.11 x 20 cm. Each painting shows a couple engaged in or preparing to enjoy sexual pleasure some with genitals exposed each painted with the most delicate and beautiful colors as their faces display a pink flush with excitement. The girls all have "Golden Lotus" feet or bound feet with tiny shoes tied on they are all dressed in lovely flowing gown with natural garden setting in the background with colorful flowers & trees. 1. The first scene shows a very young couple preparing to make love. 2. The next is of a young girl using a dildo while a male lover looks on with erect penis. 3. The third shows a girl sitting on her lover's knee as he fondles her vulva. 4. Next shows a couple engaging in love-making in the garden as the girl sits facing her lover. The genitals are shown where engaged. 5. Two girls prepare to engage in love-making. They are both on a sofa one reclines holds a bronze mirror while the other girl holds her lover's right leg up. Both share looking into the mirror to see the erotic scene some mild discoloration on her hip & face. 6. Shows a couple in the garden while the girl rests her face on her arm on a rock bending over exposing her posterior while her lover enters from the rear and holds her fast. 7. A couple are seated the man first then the woman sits upon his lap as she holds up one knee for deep penetration. 8. While the mistress sleeps on her bed in the background the master unsatisfied pulls the servant girl to his exposed penis. She resists. 9. A lovely garden scene shows the couple with the man holding the girl by the shoulder as they hug each other. 10. In the garden girl holds a fan while she awaits her lover who sends away a young girl so they may begin their love-making. 11. While standing in a shallow stream the master exposes his erect penis while the girl pulls him toward her showing him her exposed vulva as they both hold up their gowns giving view to their genitals. 12. A couple on a blanket with the man in the superior position as he mounts her while she entwines her legs around him holding him fast. 13. A garden scene shows a man on a wall as he "dallies" with a young maid-girl who reaches up to touch his hands likely to help him down. Probably a secret meeting with his young lover. 14. Shows a beautiful woman at an open gate while her lover passes by she flashes an enticing look his way. He turns his head towards her he is accompanied by a young servant- girl who carries his lute as he passes with his fan and gives her a good look. 15. The last is a view of the male-scholar as he sits at his desk and books while looking out a large round window at the girl. She is wearing a lovely saffron robe likely exposing her posterior to him in an inviting sexy stance. All of these lovely paintings show the most pleasant and joyful expressions on the face and especially in the eyes and lips. Books of this subject style are vintage are scarce. The Chinese had a very naturalistic view and open attitude toward sex during this period. Love-making and erotic scenes of this subject were drawn in the most natural ways. People are shown with very pleasant "Yin & Yang" looks between men and women and the act of "Clouds & Rain" love-making are done with pleasant and enjoyable expressions BINDING: The work is period bound and mounted with silk each painting is on silk. The accordion folded book is bound in hard-wood covers. Nicely executed mounted & bound in the traditional Chinese style. On the opposite pages to the paintings is a lovely hand-made gold-flecked Chinese papery. A wonderful example of the best of Chinese painting and bookbinding art form. . unknown
771516 double-page & four single-page color-printed woodcuts. 13; 11; 9 folding leaves. Three vols. Small 8vo orig. speckled semi-stiff boards boards rubbed orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers new stitching. Japan probably Edo: manuscript inscription dated “1832†at end of each volume.<br/> <br/> First edition and very rare; we do not find this book listed in WorldCat or in the Union Catalogue of Japanese Books. The Preface is signed by Akikei or Akikage Higashikuni.<br/> <br/> This work is an erotic version of Shiki no en an 18th-century group of songs on the four seasons of love from the Yamada ryu school of the Japanese harp koto. The poems of Haku Rakuten or Bai Letian 772-846 the Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty are sources for the songs along with Japanese waka poems. Haku Rakuten “became the favorite poet of Heian times…He was the Chinese poet to whom allusions and from whom recollections were most frequent in Heian Japan. His verses were often used for kudai waka and he epitomized Chinese poetry.â€â€“Earl Miner et al. The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature p. 160.<br/> <br/> The first color-printed woodcut depicts a woman preparing to play the koto. There follows a series of erotic double-page woodcuts: kabuki actors young samurai Chinese characters and women of various social classes are shown engaged in sex through the changing seasons. It is fascinating to see the various rooms and their furnishings the participants’ costumes and the landscapes in the background.<br/> <br/> The fine woodcuts were clearly created by a member of the Utagawa school however we are unable to establish their artistic authorship.<br/> <br/> Very good set but with some thumbing. The second and third volumes have some worming touching several of the woodcuts. unknown
9827Three frontis. & 21 double-page color-printed woodblock illus. 16; 12.5; 13.5 folding leaves. 12mo 113 x 80 mm. orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers with images of rabbits snowflakes & flowers labels on upper covers with motif of flowers old stitching. Japan: late Edo or early Meiji.<br /> <br> <br> <br /> <br /> A very rare small-format erotic work written by IkkadÅ Injin é€¸æ¡‚å ‚æ·«äºº and illustrated by KaikÅtei Shujin 開好äºä¸»äºº both clearly pen names. These volumes are very finely illustrated with the theme of “snow moon and flower.â€<br /> <br> <br> The artist was very accomplished and the images are highly complex and skilled. The volumes use almost all of the techniques that make Japanese illustrated books so remarkable. This late shunga is richly colored and employs bokashi the delicate variation of shading of pigment within the image; blind-embossing; and the very ample use of gold silver and copper pigments. The depicted garments are a mixture of extremely complex textures colors and patterns all accentuated by blind-embossing and multiple woodblock impressions. There are two kinds of black flat black and shiny black rendering a most unusual appearance.<br /> <br> <br> A very fine example. The title-page in Vol. I is a little cracked due to the use of metallic pigment. unknown
83369Paris c.1930s. . Six gelatin silver prints 22 x 16 cm. Very good condition and with very good tone. Framed. <br /> A series of six nude studies showing the same model posing in the photographer's studio. The style of the photographs which artistically combines high and low art allows to attribute the authorship to the Grundworth studio which is known to have been producing erotic postcards in Paris from the 1890s to the 1930s. <br /><br />Like most of the studios engaged in production of erotic photographs and postcards of the time little is known about it as despite the widespread circulation of these cards their production and distribution was illegal in France hence anonymity was essential. Given the time span and a number of different styles the name is unlikely to represent an individual photographer but more likely a group of photographers who were perhaps better known but wanted to hide their real identities.<br /> [Paris, c.1930s]. unknown
7716Seven double-page one of which has flaps & folds out into a four-panel scene and two single-page woodcuts all finely color-printed and nine double-page black & white woodcuts. One color-printed title-page pasted down on inner upper wrapper 24 folding leaves. Small 8vo orig. color-printed upper wrapper with embossing decorated lower wrapper new stitching. Edo: Preface dated 1864.<br/> <br/> First edition and very rare; we find no copy in WorldCat. The Preface was written by Tanekiyo Ryusuitei 1823-1907 using his pen name “Insuitei.†<br/> <br/> Following one of the frequent fires in the famous pleasure quarters of Yoshiwara often started by the prostitutes in an effort to free themselves many brothels temporarily re-established themselves in other locations throughout Edo. This book was issued as sort of a guide to the newly relocated brothels and very much reflects the changes that shunga books were going through during the end of the Edo period.<br/> <br/> The first double-page woodcut depicts the exterior of a thriving brothel in Edo with many prostitutes within looking out to the numerous passing men and women on the bustling street. This opens up into a four-panel image of the interior of the brothel showing men being entertained and engaging in several sexual activities. The following six double-page woodcuts depict the “star†prostitutes all engaged in sex with the names of the brothels where they worked. All the rooms shown are very luxuriously furnished with silk screens ornate fabrics and beautiful furniture. These woodcuts are all printed in richly saturated colors including silver and gold pigments and with complex embossing.<br/> <br/> The cult of sex organs where phalluses are objects of veneration and worship is also exhibited here in a most uncommon image. The final color-printed woodcut — single-page — depicts an altar inside the brothel where a phallus is the center of worship. Envelopes containing cash left by clients are piled in front. See Suzuki Kenko’s most fascinating “Popular Cults of Sex Organs in Japan: Guardian Deities Auspicious Objects and Votive Paintings†in Timothy Clark et al. eds. Shunga. Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art British Museum: 2013 pp. 364-67.<br/> <br/> The text section contains nine very interesting double-page black-and-white woodcuts showing elaborate scenes of entertainment men and women having “intimate moments†the aftermath of sex with copious dribbling secretions used napkin wipes on the floor etc. These scenes can be described as “action-packed.â€<br/> <br/> Fine and fresh copy. One black-and-white woodcut has two small holes. unknown
TK0040India: 19th century. Collection from various sources meaning clearly this group includes work from several different artists. Please view added illustrations online under this description. [19th century]. unknown
