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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1911345491Heilbronn; Paris: Henninger; H. Welter 1911. First edition each volume one of 135 or 175 numbered copies on Hollande vol. I 210 copies. 12 vols. 12mo. Original red cloth. Some toning. Very good plus. First edition each volume one of 135 or 175 numbered copies on Hollande vol. I 210 copies. 12 vols. 12mo. A set of the pioneering compendium of erotic folklore and language published over several decades and encompassing Russian French German English Welsh Breton Italian Scandinavian and other sources. Volume IX for example reprints Marcel Schwob's Parnasse Satyrique du quinzième siècle with a French printer's imprint and Rochester's Sodom. The volumes were chiefly printed in Germany the first four bearing a Heilbronn imprint and the remaining volumes with the imprint of H. Welter in Paris Welter was a German national whose business was seized during the first world war. Kryptadia has been reprinted on several occasions but the original edition is uncommon in the market.<br /> <br /> This set with outstanding provenance from the library of Louis Perceau who with poet Guillaume Apollinaire compiled the first catalogue of the books of the Enfer or restricted category of erotic books in the Bibliothèque Nationale beginning in 1913. His library was dispersed in 2007. Pia Les Livres de l'Enfer 699-704. Provenance: Louis Perceau sale Drouot 26 June 2007 Henninger; H. Welter unknown
36477probably England 20th century. An 18th century scene showing a man and woman in elaborate dress surprised in a boudoir by another woman entering the room. 4 inches in diameter. Glazed and framed in black wood and gilt metal frame of earlier date. An 18th century scene showing a man and woman in elaborate dress surprised in a boudoir by another woman entering the room. 4 inches in diameter. An amusing jeu d'esprit very possibly done by the artist to oblige the owner of a old and previously empty frame. The elegant scene is not very lacivious--everybody is fully dressed although the surprised lady who turns away from the evidently unwelcome visitor shows a fair amount of leg and the gentleman is holding his tricorn hat in what might be regarded as a somewhat compromising position. The artist an Englishman born at the end of the 19th century studied with the eminent Walter Sickert and went on to exhibit landscapes and portraits at various prestigious venues in England and France. unknown
979524 color-printed panels with 12 illus. & 12 panels of love poems on verso on reverse 20 erotic color-printed panels pasted-in. Miniature book 48 x 50 mm. orig. color-printed pictorial boards with color-printed endpapers. Japan: n.d.<br /> <br> <br> <br /> <br /> A very rare example of a miniature shunga book color-printed on the one side with a conventional but rather “suggestive†series of love poems and on the reverse with a series of 20 erotic prints pasted-in. Each of these erotic prints has a medallion with a gently erotic title. There is no author title place of publication or date for this rare object. We suspect that it was printed in the late Edo period. <br /> <br> <br> Fine copy a little thumbed. unknown
1830215738Japan. 1830 -1860. Folded black and white kawaraban woodblock with map showing Tokyo's red light districts. 30.3 x 39.4cm. Light rubbing in one place upper margin a little worming and small closed tear in lower margin. Sheet has been backed with washi. Good copy. This late Edo period kawaraban print provides a wealth of information on the diverse aspects of sexual behaviour and attraction between men and women during this era. Following the traditional kawaraban style the print offers a detailed and varied glimpse into the lives of the time. A fascinating map of Edo's red-light districts playfully drawn with phallus-shaped lines occupies the lower centre. Eight different types of sexual toys are displayed on the left while service fees for brothels are listed above the map. The print even delves into compatibility between the sexes based on zodiac signs along with methods for predicting a baby's sex before birth. During the Edo period eroticism was viewed as another form of popular entertainment particularly for men and was widely accepted as a pastime for adults. . unknown
18645626London: Richard Bentley 1864. First English language edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 179 x 119mm and collating complete including photographic frontis: x 374. A square tight copy with some loss to upper spine label and gentle rubbing to boards. Amorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light scattered foxing largely confined to preliminary and terminal leaves; pages 161-162 partially detached but holding. A female-authored memoir that participates in both anti-Catholicism and convent-fetish eroticism it is somewhat scarce institutionally but is a rarity in trade with its most recent appearance at auction occurring a century ago. The present is the only example currently on the market. <br /> <br /> Frank in her delivery Henrietta Caracciolo recounts how her rise to young womanhood under the jealous eye of her mother -- combined with the untimely death of a sympathetic father -- led to her unwilling confinement in a Benedictine convent. Denied early opportunities for engaging in the courtship and marriage economy she longs to be a part of Henrietta Caracciolo instead is forced by her mother to repress her sexual identity and disappear into a life of solitude and chastity. What she finds there instead is a space of sexual abuse unexplained deaths illicit affairs physical abuse and theft. "My sole aim in writing these Memoirs has been to confirm" she writes in the preface "as far as lay in my power with the arguement drawn from fact the opportune and just decree of the Italian government in the suppression of Convents and to disabuse the minds of those if haply any such remain who deem these places the repositories of religious virtues." Timely social commentary in her native Italy her memoirs hit a different note in Protestant England where Catholic convents and monasteries had long been closed; indeed it participated in the anti-Catholic fetish fantasy of convents and monasteries as bastions of deviant and violent sexuality. She herself by the memoir's end emerges to a new and more promising life -- one which participates in popular Victorian cult of domesticity and motherhood which she positions as far more godly and fulfilling. Yet it also leaves open the door of female desire and sexual fulfilment. "By the side of a husband who adores me and to whom I respond with equal love I am where the Almighty placed woman at the close of Creation's first week."<br /> <br /> <br /> Register of Erotic Books 2950. Richard Bentley unknown
25<p>Rare exemplaire du Volume 1 de la serie EROTICA par David Hamilton 7 volumes au total livre relié avec étui parut en 1984 uniquement publié au Japon l'édition est rare épuisée depuis longtemps .</p><p>Le livre mesure 303 x 302 cm compte 65 pages numérotées</p><p>Les 2 pièces sont recouvertes de tissu brun foncé avec lettrage embossé.</p><p>L'état reste bon des traces de friction sur le tissu de couverture on notera des rousseurs présente sur les premières pages et sur la dernière page de colophon l'intérieur est resté frais.</p><p>Ces 7 volumes n'ont jamais été réédités et sont considérés comme des pièces de collection de 30 ans</p> Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha hardcover
26<p>Rare exemplaire du vol 2 de la serie EROTICA par David Hamilton livre relié avec étui parut en 1984 7 volumes au total publiés uniquement au Japon</p><p>Les 2 pièces sont recouvertes de tissu bleu avec le lettrage embossé quelques traces de friction sur l'étui visibles sous un certain angle l'intérieur est très frais cependant on notera des petites traces de doigt sur les dernières pages en bas 5758 59 et surtout 60.</p><p>Le livre mesure 303 x 302 cm</p><p>Ces 7 volumes n'ont jamais été réédités et sont considérés comme de pièces de collection de 30 ans</p> Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha hardcover
