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[CURIOSA]:
Le Théâtre érotique de la rue de la Santé précédé de son histoire.
sans lieu [Bruxelles], Partout et nulle part mais dans l'arrière-boutique de tous les libraires, En l'an de joie 1882. In-12 de [4]-198-[2] pages, demi-basane à coins, tranches jaspées.
Référence libraire : 20492
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[CURIOSA]:
Le vray antiphonaire belletrien.
A Thélème, A l'enseigne du morpion rouge et vert, 1959. In-4 en feuilles, de 208-[4] pages suivi d'une suite de 54 feuillets imprimés en bordeaux formant une suite des illustrations, chemise, étui.
Référence libraire : 17868
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[CURIOSA]:
Les jésuites de la maison Professe de Paris, en belle humeur [et] Les moines en belle humeur.
A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1725. Petit in-12 de [10]-446 pages, plein veau brun, dos à nerfs orné de filets et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin bordeaux, tranches rouges, roulette dorée sur les coupes. Menus défauts à la reliure, papier parfois un peu bruni.
Référence libraire : 9427
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[D., Gustave]
Il Paradiso della Carne. Tradotto dal francese a cura di Ottavio Cazzoni.
Paris, Éditions Cul de Lampe, 1948. 8°. 79 S. mit 14 explizit erotischen ganzseitigen Illustrationen nach Zeichnungen sowie 5 kl. erot. Zeichnungen im Text. Illustr. Orig.-Broschur. u. farbig illustr. Innentitel.
Référence libraire : 4164B
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[DE BEAUNOIR (Alexandre-Louis-Bertrand Robineau, dit)]
La Bourbonnaise à la guinguette, Farce-vaudeville en un acte et en prose, mêlée de chants et de danses. Représentée à Paris pour la première fois, le 30 octobre 1768.
In-8, broché, couverture de papier bordeaux moderne, 32 p. Edition originale de cette farce grivoise qui prend pour modèle la Du Barry. L'auteur présente l'héroïne comme "une dévergondée riboteuse" qui boit beaucoup en compagnie d'un coiffeur de dames, nomme Frison (alias le jeune Lametz). Les didascalies en tête de la pièce présentent ainsi ce "vaudeville à boire": "Le théâtre représente une guinguette, à l'enseigne de la Grande Pinte, aux porcherons. Il y a d'abord deux tables sur le devant de la scène ; ensuite quatre autres sont occupées par plusieurs buveurs, qui font différentes pantomimes amusantes. À la première, d'un côté, on voit un laquais en livrée, caressant de près une cuisinière (…). A la seconde, on voit un soldat, avec sa grivoise, qui font boire et qui caressent un Jeune paysan pour l'enrôler…". Destiné au service de l’Église, l'auteur Alexandre-Louis-Bertrand Robineau, dit de Beaumanoir, s’en détourna rapidement. Passionné de théâtre, il commença à écrire pour la troupe foraine de Nicole, et composa cette première pièce, "La Bourbonnaise" (1768) qui connut un très grand succès, à tel point que Nicolet l’engagea pour remplacer le célèbre Taconet. Après une vie aventureuse à parcourir la France et l'Europe, De Beaumanoir mourut en 1823 dans un extrême dénuement. Cf. S. Fournier, 'Rire au théâtre à Paris à la fin du XVIII siècle', Paris, 20216, p. 723-754. Bon exemplaire.
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[DE BEAUNOIR (Alexandre-Louis-Bertrand Robineau, dit)]
La Bourbonnaise à la guinguette, Farce-vaudeville en un acte et en prose, mêlée de chants et de danses. Représentée à Paris pour la première fois, le 30 octobre 1768.
1768 In-8, broché, couverture de papier bordeaux moderne, 32 p. Paris, Robustel, 1768.
Référence libraire : 38405
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[De Becker, J. E. (1863-1929)]
The Nightless City. Or the History of the Yoshiwara Yakwaku. By an English student of sociology.
Yokohama, Z. P. Maruya & Co., 1899. 8°. IV, 441 S., XIX (Appendix), 3Bll. (Kappore Dance). Orig.-Leinen mit RTitel und illustriertem Deckerl. Unbeschnitten.
Référence libraire : 9920A
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[DE LA MOTTE Huerne ]
HISTOIRE NOUVELLE DE MARGOT DES PELOTONS, OU LA GALANTERIE NATURELLE. 2 parties en 1 vol.
Genève, 1775. In-8 relié demi basane havane, pièce de titre noire, dos à nerfs, 192-143 pp. Roman libertin. Bon état.
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[Delisle de Sales, Jean-Baptiste-Claude]
Histoire des Hommes, ou Histoire nouvelle de tous les peuples du monde, partie de l'histoire moderne. Espagne.
A Paris, Avec Aprobation & Privilége du Roi, 1783. Tome I. [von 2]. Kl.8°. 2 Bll. (Titelei), 323 S. HLeder d. Zt. mit goldgepr. RTitelschildchen und dezenter RVergoldung.
Référence libraire : 3363B
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[DESLANDES (André-François Boureau)?]
L'apothéose du Beau-Sexe.
1741 In-12 (162 x 102 mm), basane marbrée reliée sur brochure, dos lisse orné de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés garnis dune large roulette en place des nerfs, palette en pied, titre doré, plats encadrés dune guirlande et dun double filet dorés, roulette sur les coupes, couverture de papier peint dorigine conservée (reliure hollandaise postérieure), xlvi, 138 p., (34) p. de table, frontispice gravé, exemplaire non rogné. Londres [i.e. Amsterdam?] chez van der Hoek, 1741.
Référence libraire : 39312
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[DIDEROT (Denis)]
Les Bijoux indiscrets.
2 tomes in-12 (162 x 95 mm), demi-maroquin rouge à grands coins, dos janséniste à 5 nerfs, têtes dorées (rel. ca 1880), (8), 288 p., (1) f. d'avis au relieur et (4), 332 p., double suite de 2 vignettes de titre, d'un frontispice et de 6 planches gravées. Seconde édition donnée immédiatement à la suite de la première, illustrée d'une double suite de 2 fleurons de titre différents, d'un frontispice et de 6 gravures "fantastiques". Il s’agit des mêmes planches que celles de l’originale mais gravées à nouveau. Le frontispice porte en légende: "Frontispice des Bijoux", les autres la mention: "Les Bijoux". Les vignettes de titre sont différentes, la première représente un sultan et un autre homme regardant une femme couchée, à moitié nue; la seconde figure un amour tirant le rideau d’un lit à baldaquin. Le présent exemplaire contient, en sus, une deuxième suite des épreuves des gravures tirées de la troisième édition, identiques mais inversées en miroir. Adams, décrit un exemplaire possédant cette même particularité dans son commentaire "3" de cette édition BI2 (II, p. 29). Première oeuvre romanesque de Diderot, ce roman libertin à clef met en scène Louis XV sous les traits du sultan Mangogul du Congo, qui reçoit du génie Cucufa un anneau magique possédant le pouvoir de faire parler les parties génitales ("bijoux") des femmes. En tournant la bague vers elles, leurs "bijoux" relatent sans détour leurs prouesses sexuelles. "Décrivant les moeurs de la cour du point de vue du désir féminin, le roman dresse le tableau d'une société libérée, où l'on multiplie les partenaires sexuels, où les apparences sont trompeuses et où la véritable tendresse est rare" (Bebelio). Le futur Encyclopédiste regarda plus tard cette oeuvre comme une sottise de jeunesse qu'il aurait souhaité réparer par "la perte d'un doigt", selon le témoignage de Naigeon. (Adams, BI2. Tchemerzine-Scheler, II, 922). Réparation au verso du titre du second tome, sans perte. Des clichés photographiques des vignettes de titre de la première édition ont été interfoliés. Très bon exemplaire, grand de marges, bien complet du feuillet de "l’Avis au relieur" qui manque le plus souvent.
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[DIDEROT (Denis)]
Les Bijoux indiscrets.
2 volumes in-16, plein veau blond moucheté de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de veau bronze, triple filet d'encadrement sur les plats, filets sur les coupes, tranches dorées, (8), 220 p. et (4), 248 p., 7 planches gravées hors texte dont une en frontispice. Jolie édition donnée par Cazin illustrée de 7 figures très originales. Première oeuvre romanesque de Diderot, ce roman libertin à clef met en scène Louis XV sous les traits du sultan Mangogul du Congo, qui reçoit du génie Cucufa un anneau magique possédant le pouvoir de faire parler les parties génitales ("bijoux") des femmes. En tournant la bague vers elles, leurs "bijoux" relatent sans détour leurs prouesses sexuelles. "Décrivant les moeurs de la cour du point de vue du désir féminin, le roman dresse le tableau d'une société libérée, où l'on multiplie les partenaires sexuels, où les apparences sont trompeuses et où la véritable tendresse est rare" (Bebelio).. Le futur Encyclopédiste regarda plus tard cette oeuvre comme une sottise de jeunesse qu'il aurait souhaité réparer par "la perte d'un doigt", selon le témoignage de Naigeon. (Adams, BI.14.Cohen, p. 303. Corroënne, 'Manuel du Cazinophile', XXII, p.106). Petit accroc aux coiffes. Mors légèrement frottés. Quelques cahiers brunis. Bon exemplaire, relié à l'époque.
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[DIDEROT (Denis)]
Les Bijoux indiscrets.
2 tomes reliés en un volume in-12 (166 x 97 mm), maroquin grenat de l'époque, dos lisse orné de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, plats encadrés de triples filets dorés garnis d'un petit fleuron d'angle, roulette sur les coupes et les chasses, (8), 288 p. et (4), 332 p., 2 vignettes de titre gravées. Edition publiée l'année de l'originale, la troisième, conforme à la description donnée par Adams. Exemplaire sans les planches. La première oeuvre romanesque de Diderot. Dans ce roman libertin et "philosophique", Louis XV sous les traits du sultan Mangogul du Congo, reçoit du génie Cucufa un anneau magique qui possède le pouvoir de faire parler les parties génitales ("bijoux") des femmes... Diderot regardait son oeuvre comme une sottise de jeunesse qu’il souhaitait réparer par "la perte d’un doigt", selon le témoignage de Naigeon. (Adams, BI3. Cohen, 303). Petite étiquette ancienne de la librairie Méquignon-Junior. Restauration aux mors. Pièces de titre renouvelées. Bon exemplaire, relié en maroquin.
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[DIDEROT (Denis)]
Les Bijoux indiscrets.
1781 2 volumes in-16, plein veau blond moucheté de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de veau bronze, triple filet d'encadrement sur les plats, filets sur les coupes, tranches dorées, (8), 220 p. et (4), 248 p., 7 planches gravées hors texte dont une en frontispice. Au Monomotapa [i.e. Paris, Cazin, 1781].
Référence libraire : 38192
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[Dominil Alterio]
Rasierte Frauen. Shaved Women. Die Rock'n Roll era. Petit Enfer 1.
Nürnberg, DMK, o. J. [80er]. 8°. XV Bildtafeln. Geklammerte illustrierte Broschur.
Référence libraire : 10802A
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[DORAT (Claude-Joseph) ou COSTARD (Jean Pierre)]
Lettre du Lord Velford a Milord Dirton, son oncle, précédée d'une lettre de l'auteur.
In-8, broché, couverture papier moderne, 60 p., 2 planches gravées, vignette et cul-de-lampe, qqs rouss. Edition originale illustrée de deux planches de Eisen gravées par de Longueil, d'une vignette et d'un cul-de-lampe du même, gravés par Aliamet. L'histoire est tirée du 'Fanny' de Baculard d'Arnaud. (Cohen, 317. Conlon, n° 65:682. France Littéraire, II, 297). Bon exemplaire, imprimé sur beau papier.
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[DORAT (Claude-Joseph) ou COSTARD (Jean Pierre)]
Lettre du Lord Velford a Milord Dirton, son oncle, précédée d'une lettre de l'auteur.
In-8, broché, couverture papier moderne, 60 p., 2 planches gravées, vignette et cul-de-lampe, qqs rouss. Paris, chez L'Esclapart, 1765.
Référence libraire : 32901
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[Dorat, Claude Joseph]
Les Baisers, Précédés Du Mois De Mai.
Den Haag / Paris, Delalain Verlag, [1770, recte um 1772]. 8°. 20 x 14 cm. 1 Blatt, 186 Seiten, 3 Blatt (Verlagsanzeigen). Halblederband der Zeit auf 5 Bünden mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, ornamentaler Rückenvergoldung und Fileten, Kopfgoldschnitt sowie marmorierten Deckeln und Vorsätzen. [3 Warenabbildungen]
Référence libraire : 62965CB
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[Dorat, Claude Joseph]
Les Baisers, Précédés Du Mois De Mai.
Den Haag / Paris, Delalain Verlag, [1770, recte um 1772]. 8°. 20 x 14 cm. 1 Blatt, 186 Seiten, 3 Blatt (Verlagsanzeigen). Dunkelblauer Lederband des späten 19. Jahrhunderts im Stile der Zeit auf 5 Bünden mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, Kantenvergoldung, floraler Innenkantenvergoldung, marmoriertem Vorsatzpapier und Rundum-Goldschnitt. [8 Warenabbildungen]
Référence libraire : 3683FB
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[DORIS (Charles)]
Amours secretes de Napoléon, des princes et princesses de sa famille; D'après les documents historiques de M. de B.....
2 tomes en un volume in-12, demi maroquin havane de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, 144 p.; 101 p. et 45 p. pour 'Notes historiques sur la vie de Napoléon', 2 planches gravées en frontispice. "Pamphlet ordurier", illustrée de 2 planches gravées en frontispice. L'auteur supposé, Charles Doris de Bourges, aurait servi l'empereur comme valet de chambre. Napoléon, à Sainte-Hélène, demanda communication de cet ouvrage et s’en amusa, n’y reconnaissant rien de réel (cf. O'Meara, ‘Napoléon en exil à Sainte-Hélène (…), I, p. 48, janvier 1817). L'ouvrage a été condamné par jugement du tribunal de la Seine (3 avril 1823) à la destruction et Charles Doris fut acquitté, faute de preuves. (Drujon, ‘Livres condamnés’, p. 26. Gay, II, 186-187. Querard, II, col. 581). Piqûres soutenues à certains cahiers. Exemplaire bien relié à l’époque.
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[DORIS (Charles)]
Amours secretes de Napoléon, des princes et princesses de sa famille; D'après les documents historiques de M. de B.....
2 tomes en un volume in-12, demi maroquin havane de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, 144 p.; 101 p. et 45 p. pour 'Notes historiques sur la vie de Napoléon', 2 planches gravées en frontispice. Paris, Renault, 1844.
Référence libraire : 35930
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[DORÉ (Amandine)]
Florilège
S.l., s.n., s.d. In-4, non paginé, en feuilles, couverture originale imprimée, chemise cartonnée et étui de toile bleu de l'éditeur (taches à l'étui, petites rousseurs à la couverture et aux premiers et derniers feuillets).
Référence libraire : 18398
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[DROZ, Gustave
UN ÉTÉ A LA CAMPAGNE. Correspondance de deux jeunes parisiennes, recueillie par un auteur à la mode, et illustrée de douze gravures originales par Gaston Barret.
Paris, Jacques Haumont, s.d. (vers 1960) 1 volume grand in-8 (25 x 16,5 cm) de 148-(1) pages, en feuilles sous couverture imprimée et emboîtage de l'éditeur. Excellent état. Une petit tache en marge basse de la couverture. TIRAGE A 471 EXEMPLAIRES. CELUI-CI, 1 DES 15 EXEMPLAIRES SUR VÉLIN PUR FIL JOHANNOT CONTENANT 12 COMPOSITIONS HORS-TEXTE EN COULEUR, UN DESSIN ORIGINAL ET UNE SUITE DES GRAVURES EN NOIR. Notre exemplaire est bien complet de la suite des 12 hors-texte en noir et contient 2 esquisses originales non signées au crayon (1 feuillet recto-verso). Nombreux bandeaux érotiques dessinés au trait imprimés en noir. La première édition date de 1868 (Poulet-Malassis).
Référence libraire : AMO-598
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[Droz, Gustave]
Un été à la campagne. Correspondance de deux jeunes parisiennes. Recueillie par un auteur à la mode.
Paris, ohne Verlag [d.i. C. Hirsch], 1905. 8°. 141 Seiten und 8 erotische Stahlstiche, davon 2 Frontispize, montiert auf Tafeln. Halbleder der Zeit. Rücken mit goldgepr. RTitel und floraler Vergoldung. Kopfgoldschnitt. Die Orig.-Broschur mit eingebunden.
Référence libraire : 9433A
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[DU LAURENS (Henri-Joseph)]
LE COMPERE MATHIEU, OU LES BIGARRURES DE L'ESPRIT HUMAIN. NOUVELLE ÉDITION, Ornée de belles Figures
A Malthe Aux Dépens du Grand-Maître 1786 in-16 plein-veau 4 volumes, reliure plein veau havane marbré et raçiné in-seize (binding full calfskin in-16) (13,3 x 8,6 cm), dos long (spine without raised bands), titre et tomaison frappés "or" , pièce de titre et de tomaison sur fond vert foncé avec de part et d'autre un filet perlé "or" dans un encadrement d'un filet "or", entre nerfs à fleuron "or" avec un filet perlé "or" de part et d'autre dans un encadrement d'un filet "or" avec rinceaux "or" aux angles, filet "or" en place des nerfs avec un filet perlé "or" de part et d'autre, roulette et filet "or" en tête et en pied, trés léger manque de cuir à la coiffe de tête du tome 3, plats décorés "or", d'une roulette "chainette" "or" en encadrement, roulette "or" sur les coupes avec manque de dorrure, toutes tranches lisses dorées, tampon Ex-Libris d'Epoque à l'encre brune au dos de la 1ère de couverture De la Bibliothèque du chateau de Sohier, dont il porte l'Ex-libris : SOHIER (Belgique - Lors de son mariage au début du XVIIIe siècle, la dernière héritière des de Ghenart fait entrer Sohier dans la maison de Lamock), orné d'une gravure "château" en bas de la page de titre + 12 TRES BELLES gravures hors-texte en noir chiffrées mais non signées + ornée de bandeaux et culs-de-lampe à l'encadrement des chapitres (Les gravures sont similaires à celles publiées dans l'édition 2000 du Paréiasaure), 186 + 162 + 181 + 172 pages, 1786, A Malthe, Aux Dépens du Grand-Maître [La date de 1786 est indiquée sur la page de titre des 4 tomes] Editeur,
Référence libraire : 22924
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[DULAURENS Henri-Jospeh]:
Le compère Matthieu, ou les bigarrures de l'esprit humain.
Sans lieu, Imprimerie de Patris, 1796. 3 volumes in-8 de [4]-308; [2]-326; [2]-360 pages, demi-veau brun, dos (insolés) lisses ornés de filets dorés, accrocs à deux coiffes, tranches jaspées.
Référence libraire : 9429
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[Eisen, Charles] - [La Fontaine, Jean de]
Suite de 10 gravures d'après Eisen pour Les Contes et Nouvelles en vers de La Fontaine 1762 édition dite des fermiers généraux
sl: sn Estampe. Illus. by Charles Eisen. Assez bon. En Feuilles. In-8. 10 gravures souvent lestes tirées sur Chine et appliquées sur papier vélin 23 x 155 cm marges comprises sujets : 10 x 65 cm environ. Les gravures ont la particularité d'être dépourvues du cadre qui normalement les entoure. Nous n'avons pas réussi à savoir qui est à l'origine de ces retirages. Il s'agit probablement d'un travail de la fin du XIXe ou du début du XXe siècle sans qu'elles ne correspondent aux éditions de Lemonnyer ou de Crès. Des rousseurs parfois importantes mais ne touchant pas les sujets. sd. sn Paperback
Référence libraire : 5149
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[Emmanuelle] - [VAN KLEEF (Bee)].-
Emmanuelle à Rome.
P., Eureditions, 1971, in 8° broché, 276 pages ; couverture illustrée en couleurs.
Référence libraire : 54480
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[Eric Losfeld sous pseudonyme] Xavier de Beauvoir
CERISE ou le moment bien employé. Frontispice érotique
L'Astrée [Eric Losfeld], 1956, (14,5 x 19 cm), 128 pages, sous jaquette. Un dessin en frontispice. Édité une première fois en 1955 par Eric Losfeld, premier volume de la collection "Les Chimères", ce texte érotique dont Eric Losfeld a assuré être l'auteur, est réimprimé ici chez l'éphémère maison d'édition "Astrée", sans aucun doute fondée par Eric Losfeld de même.Deuxième édition, presque identique en tout point à l'édition de 1955, et non moins courante. Exemplaire en bon état, quelques rousseurs sur les tranches, et en fin et début du volume.
Référence libraire : 67
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[Eric Losfeld] Rosa Belinda Coote
MÉMOIRES DE MISS COOTE Exploits d'une Fouetteuse britanique racontés par elle-même
MÉMOIRES DE MISS COOTE Exploits d'une Fouetteuse britanique racontés par elle-même sous le pseudonyme de Rosa Belinda Coote. Bibliothèque des deux Hémisphères, Paris, sans date, (14 x 19 cm), 156 pages, couv. rempliée. Édition publiée clandestinement par Eric Losfeld à la fin des années 50. L'ouvrage fut condamné en mars 1961. Exemplaire en excellent état.
Référence libraire : 68
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[Ernst GERHARD]
Historische Nächte Suite de 5 eaux-fortes érotiques.
S.d. [Berlin ? 1925 ?] Dimensions des cuivres : 8,5 x 8,5 cm environ. Dimension de la feuille : 19 x 13,5 cm environ. Feuilles contrecollées (marge haute) sur support passe-partout artisanal (amateur). Chaque gravure porte un titre en allemand au crayon avec un numéro. Les voici : 1. Die Entflührung (l'enlèvement) 2. Der Spielmann (le ménestrel) 3. Narr und Nonne (le fou et la nonne) 4. Pagendienst (le Page) 5. Die Courtisane (la courtisane) Nous n'avons pu trouver que très peu d'informations sur cet artiste berlinois. Nous avons noté d'autres suites de gravures érotiques, publiées à la même époque. Ses gravures ne devaient être tirées qu'à très petit nombre si l'on se réfère à la rareté des épreuves actuellement sur le marché. TRÈS RARE SUITE DE 5 EAUX-FORTES ÉROTIQUES PAR ERNST GERHARD.
Référence libraire : AMO-2038
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[Erotic drawings, collection, Persia].
11 Persian hand-drawn erotic plates on paper 19th century test written in Persian the drawings with an Indian orientation.
unknown: no date. . Please view added illustrations online under this description. [no date]. unknown
Référence libraire : TK0041
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[Erotic drawings, collection, India].
25 hand-drawn erotic plates on paper 19th century India.
India: 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
Référence libraire : TK0040
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[Erotic ephemera]
POKE FOR KICK
n.p. Taiwan 1920. Internally side-stapled with printed wrappers. Chipping creases and stains to covers; damp-stain to first few pages. Good. 5 x 6. 7/8". 52pp. A particularly odd example of an erotic mimeo novel; a sort of erotic confession or coming-of-age story told by a mother formerly known as 'Peach' in the form of a letter to her daughter. It begins: 'My Beloved Nancy although it seems to show shy of affection on your part to write a letter like this from your own mother it requires fortitude of a top kilter that I've prepositioned to give away nakedly my low-down bedrock eventuated in my rosebud days just as you're now one of the season's buds.' This style of writing at first seemed to be a kind of Engrish but its playful and often deliberately strange tone suggested someone playing with style and prosody - a Joycean jape or a cut-up pornographic Gertrude Stein. Closer inspection revealed a line of Chinese characters in the gutter and the numbers 29-5-21 29 May 1921. And we suppose Engrish it is. It may be a bastardized form or rewite of an earlier work; there's mention of a country-house in Scotland and a trip to the Riviera but the action soon gets down to Peach's defilement at the hands of three men plus a flagellation scene. The book is crudely printed via spirit duplication in a dark red ink on brownish paper; the stencil seems to have been gone over by hand giving the text a rough-hewn hand-made quality. One page is redone in block letters. Small illos follow the end of two of the six chapters: that of a sailing ship or Chinese junk and a Model T or similar make auto. Crepe-like paper has been used as an end-paper. An unusual and unique item. unknown
Référence libraire : 48809
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[erotic ephemera]
UNTITLED PORNOGRAPHIC STORY Beginning "The beautiful Emma who before her marriage some years previously was a pretty girl of eighteen and a maid in my father's house."
n.p.: No Publisher 1950. Plain orange wrappers. Shelfwear and staining. Internally stitched. Crudely trimmed good only. 4.5x6". 16pp. This is the sort of pornographic booklet that for obvious reasons was published anonymously; possibly in New York but there's really not much to go on. Very likely rewritten or copied from a Victorian or fin de siecle work; it has some of the stylistic hallmarks and given the slim budget this was produced with the book employs two different paper stocks and the premium value of originality it is at least a work of pastiche. Cheaply produced and in unknown quantities by an unknown publisher this is the sort of work that's remarkable in a way for simply having survived; in that sense it truly is a piece of ephemera. No Publisher unknown
Référence libraire : 44350
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[erotic facsimile Newspaper]
Facsimile erotic newspaper 19th century Amsterdamsche courant Vrijdag 21 april 1815 no 94 4 pp. With nude women illustrations.
<div>A facsimile reproduction of the newspaper Amsterdamsche courant for Friday April 21 1815 in the margins of which photographs of nude women taken later in the 19th century have been reproduced. Original publisher J. Van Bonga. Only one other copy known in Yale library. 44 x 62 cm folded to 44 x 31 cm.</div><div></div><div></div> unknown
Référence libraire : PR121572
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[Erotic Fiction] [Flagellation] [Whipping] [Flogging] [Sadomasochism] Buckle, Henry Thomas; [Henry Spencer Ashbee]
Library Illustrative of Social Progress: Exhibition of Famale Flagellants in the Modest and Incontinent World Parts One and Two; Lady Bumtickler's Revels; A Treatise of the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs; Madame Birchini's Dance; Sublime of Flagellation; Fashionable Lectures - 7 volumes
Publisher not identified No date actual year of this set's publication not known. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 67; 84; 106; 83; 57; 54; 120pp. Small octavos 21 cm. Volume 7 is a duodecimo 19.5 cm. 1/4 white cloth with gray paper over boards. Extremities moderately bumped and lightly soiled. Endpapers with areas of darkening. Text block of volume 7 cracked a couple of times. Seven tracts on flagellation flogging. The Library Illustrative of Social Progress was a series of books dealing with erotica and published by John Camden Hotten circa 1872. John Camden Hotten claimed that his series of flagellation reprints had been taken from Henry Thomas Buckle's collection but that was untrue as reported by Henry Spencer Ashbee. Ashbee claims that the books were actually reprinted from a collection of books that were in his collection. Publisher not identified hardcover
Référence libraire : 69483
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[Erotic Fore-edge painting] Rev. William M. COOPER.
A History of the Rod in all countries from the earliest period to the present time. With numerous illustrations. A new edition revised and corrected.
London:: William Reeves n.d. ca.1890. 1890. Head of title: Flagellation & the Flagellants. Small 8vo. xi 1 544 pp. Frontis. 20 illus. index. Modern full black calf and triangle-shaped red morocco onlays raised bands gilt stamping upper cover with gilt central "rod and birch" motif all edges gilt marbled endleaves hand bound by Martin Frost with his gilt-stamped monogram label on rear board. Red cloth thumb-hold slip-case. Fine. "THE ALLURE OF THE WHIP!" With a splendid fore-edge painting showing a pair of horse or carriage riders "riding" their partners back-sides prominently showing in the spirit of Thomas Rowlandson and in this case like Martin Frost who often displays a remarkable sense of humor and the exotic for artistry. Frost's signed book label mounted as a bookplate in front dated 2007. The artist is playing with us by making the trees into the shape of a phallus all of them!. Painting also signed "MF". Frost himself describes this as "A Rowlandesque road scene of travelers 'whipping up' themselves as well as their mounts!" / This is one of the early efforts of MF to bind and paint the book himself. William Reeves, n.d. [ca.1890]. hardcover
Référence libraire : FF2442
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[Erotic Fore-edge Painting] DRURY, Henry (1812–1863) (editor).
Arundines Cami sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Lusus Canori atque edidit Henricus Drury.
Cantabrigiae:: J. et J.J. Deighton; Londini: Joh. Gul. Parker 1846. 1846. Two parts in one vol. 8vo. xii 13-335 1 pp. Title & leaves with red borders throughout. Text mostly in Latin and English with some Greek. Original full dark green gilt-stamped morocco raised bands all edges gilt "Bound by Dodd" Cambridge; rubbed. Foxed. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Sebastian Bayley M.A. "Finem Respice". With an erotic fore-edge painting showing a bedroom scene the young man wearing only his shirt lying in bed the nude lady-lover stroking his erect penis and taking some pleasure as his feet play between her legs. Painted for Harrington's London by their house artist ca. 1995. / The text is compiled by Drury with numerous poetic contributions from various sources. Includes "A Song of Sixpence." p. 113. Among the English selections are contributions by Samuel Rogers Gray Burns Shakespeare Tennyson Gammer Gurton unknown Sheridan Byron Andrew Marvel Ben Jonson Cowper Milton Congreve Prior Colton etc. "In 1838 Drury became classical lecturer at Caius but having been ordained he left Cambridge in 1839 to take sole charge of Alderley Gloucestershire a curacy which he exchanged the following year for that of Bromham Wiltshire. Drury together with some friends projected and published the Arundines Cami a collection of translations into Latin and Greek verse by several Cambridge men. The first edition was published in a beautiful form in 1841 and four subsequent editions appeared during Drury's lifetime; a sixth after his death was edited by his son-in-law Mr. H. J. Hodgson in 1865. These successive editions contained several new pieces." Wikipedia. See: "Sudden Death of the Archdeacon of Wilts and Chaplain to the House of Commons" The Times London Tuesday 27 Jan 1863 p. 8. PROVENANCE: Thomas Sebastian Bayley M.A. fl.ca.1855 Lancashire. J. et J.J. Deighton; Londini: Joh. Gul. Parker, 1846. hardcover
Référence libraire : FF2480
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[Erotic Literature] Derrick, Samuel
A Collection of Travels Thro' Various Parts of the World.Containing an Accurate Account of the Religion Laws Manners Commerce and Constitution of Many Different Nations in 2 vols.
London: John Wilkie 1762. First edition. With title page of volume II erroneously dated MDCCXII as called for by ESTC. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards measuring 168 x 100mm and collating complete: 20 338; 12 324. A square copy with joints professionally renewed; some chipping to spine labels and gentle shelfwear to boards. Faint dampstaining to lower corner of contents in volume I and paper loss to upper corner of pages 203-204 affecting 9 lines each. Volume II overall clean with long archivally reinforced tear to pages 131-132 and paper loss to lower corner of pages 171-172 with no text loss in either case. An exceptionally scarce fantastical travel narrative with erotic content published by notorious Grub Street writer and demi-monde ally Samuel Derrick. ESTC locates only three copies at institutions BL Columbia and UCLA and of the three copies to appear in the modern auction record the most recent was in 1941. The present is the only example on the market. <br /> <br /> In a 1763 review in The Critical Review or Annals of Literature vol. 15 Samuel Derrick's Collection of Travels is derided as a book for "those who read merely for amusement and care not for turning up the huge collection of voyages traveled by Purchas Churchill Astley Harris &c" due to its "total neglect of dates total want of maps a strange perversion of names a general lack of precision or accuracy." These same reviewers make a dismissive nod to how "the adventures of captain John Smith savour strongly of romance" and suggest that the work "does not seem to have been intended so much for serious reading as for pleasing the imagination" but they fail to grasp just how much this is the case. No matter how deeply Samuel Derrick sought to portray himself as a participant in London's intelligentsia he was ultimately a Grub Street hack who "wrote to eat" and not from "any great artistic urge" Rubenhold. Having learned early on that "hacks and whores shared much common ground" Derrick became not only a "gentleman defender" and friend to several of London's demi-monde he also used their escapades as inspiration for his writing and his writing to promote their reputations and services.<br /> <br /> Such is the case with the present work designed for stoking the reader's fantasies and for lining the author and publisher's pockets. Among "the period's richest funds of data erotica and pornography permeated the culture.and the 18th century bookshop" Pettit and Spedding. Works operating under the thin guises of travel law medicine politics history or religion presented readers across genders with graphic depictions not only of cis-gendered and heterosexual encounters but even more often with scenes that cenered queer polyamorous and female pleasure. In the case of Collection of Travels Derrick used preexisting popular travel narratives as the backdrop for his main work: depicting sexual behaviors common within London's sex trade but setting them within exotic locales. Within volume I for example his explorers encounter "the prostitution of the women of Camul and their hospitable reception of strangers" "the common use of women" in Thebet rites of "marriages of the people of Servia" and the "wives and concubines" of Constantinople including how they are valued how virginity is tried and how they are punished. The second volume builds on this including such content as the "courtezans of Persia" the "women lewd" of Turkey and "the usage of their wives" in Algiers. Given his own appreciation for the power of the sex workers in his own life -- notably Lucy Cooper Kitty Fisher and Charlotte Hayes -- he also includes a section on "the authority of the women in this country" of the Congo. <br /> <br /> One of Derrick's few stand-alone multi-volume works to be published and a rarity in the collecting areas of erotic literature and travel fiction. <br /> <br /> ESTC T135777. Not in the Register of Erotic Books. John Wilkie unknown
Référence libraire : 5478
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[Erotic Literature] [Cornuto] A Gentleman of Doctors Commons
Cuckoldom Triumphant; or Matrimonial Incontinence Vindicated.To which is added A Looking Glass for Each Sex
London: Printed by T. Thorn 1771. First edition. Contemporary sheep recornered and rebacked to style with gilt and morocco to spine. Measuring 163 x 95mm. Collating 4 203 1 blank: complete with A Looking Glass beginning at page 146 with continuous register. Nineteenth century bookplate to front pastedown. Offsetting to outer margins of title and of pages 198-203 not affecting text; lower corner of dedication leaf neatly excised with no loss to text; marginal paper flaw to pages 45-46. Overall internally unmarked and clean. One of two equally scarce variants with no priority the other printed by J. Bird. ESTC reports only one surviving copy of each both of these held by the British Library of these only the Bird variant is digitized. Neither these first issues nor the later re-issue titled Cupid Turned Spy appear in the modern auction record. An exceptionally rare work. <br /> <br /> The widespread cultural assertion that men had control over their own fates led to equally widespread anxiety in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Despite a preponderance of laws and traditions that privileged men and sought to subjugate women and queer peoples sex outside the boundaries of marriage undermined those systems. Few figures encapsulate this truth better than the cuckold. "Cuckolds were seen as being unable to satisfy and control their wives; as literary tropes "they are more often than not the target of derision to both their peers on the stage and the audience the theatre nearly universally to be greeted with laughter as they follow a predictable path of failure in marriage" Corcoran. As much as these figures assisted male audience members in projecting their fears onto allegedly weaker men they signify that complete control over women marriages and lines of inheritance isn't possible. The denial of women's agency does not equate the complete absence of women's agency.<br /> <br /> Women's sexual agency had become highly visible in key sectors of London society by the eighteenth century thanks in part to the rise of a famed generation of courtesans often called the "demi-monde" who dominated not only their own brothels and houses but also theatres opera houses and the court itself. Sex work more generally had become extremely common with studies estimating that anywhere from 8600 to 80000 citizens of the city were engaged in some level of the sex trade Rogers. In this atmosphere depictions of the cuckold shifted in some erotic works. Rather than symbolizing men's sexual failures the cuckold's acceptance of his position acknowledged and at times even celebrated women's sexual autonomy. If being cuckolded was inevitable as a result of women's equal participation in sexual desire then fault might not lie with the cuckold. Indeed being a cuckold may even have benefits when more conservative social judgment is set aside.<br /> <br /> Authored by the pseudonymous "Cornuto" -- a Latin joke naming the author after the cuckold's "horn" -- Cuckoldom Triumphant is dedicated to the gentry noting "the amazing encrease of antlers of late among the nobility whose customs the common people are so fond of copying which gives me the pleasing promise of cuckoldom's becoming universal." Indeed the author notes cuckoldom is inevitable and each must choose his own reaction to the state. To that end "this work is intended to comfort the afflicted and confirm the contented among those who are married as well as prepare the unmarried for the happy state of cuckoldom." In what follows the author provides readers with a sensational erotic story following the awakening of Mrs. Latitat to the pleasures of extramarital sexuality as well as her husband's transformation from jealous resistance to acceptance and contentment within a more peaceful marital state. <br /> <br /> ESTC T62268 T226126 for the J. Bird variant. Register of Erotic Books 1197 for a later issue re-titled Cupid Turned Spy. Printed by T. Thorn unknown
Référence libraire : 5080
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[Erotic Literature] [Caracciolo, Henrietta]
Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo of the Princes of Forino. Ex Benedictine Nun
London: 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
Référence libraire : 5626
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[Erotic Literature] [Sex Work] Fantosme
Memoirs of the Nobility Gentry &c. of Thule: or The Island of Love. Being a Secret History of Their Amours Artifices and Intrigues in 2 vols.
London: Printed for W. Webb 1742. First edition. Bound to style in 19th century sheep with morocco and gilt to spines. Measuring 168 x 96mm and with occasional mispagination but collating complete: xxiv 300; 2 336. Some offsetting to preliminary and terminal leaves and occasional light foxing and marginal chips not affecting text; discreet archival repairs to short tear on pages 115-116 and long tear to 285-286 of volume I preserving all text. Early amateur cloth tape repair to recto of front endpaper to volume II. Pinholes to lower spines of both volumes with minor associated worming to the lower front hinges. A scarce example of early erotic literature centered on London's famous courtesans ESTC lists only 6 copies with institutions. The present copy aside the last example to appear at auction was in 1882. <br /> <br /> Published two years apart the two volumes of Memoirs of the Nobility are different in their approaches to London's elite including the infamous Great Impures who hosted the wealthiest men in their parlours and their beds. Volume I launches its readers into a thinly veiled satire wherein the protagonist Aloisa visits the mythical kingdom of Thule. During her tour on arrival Aloisa discovers a city of extreme decadence whose cast of characters would be familiar to most Londoners indeed the copy housed at the British Museum has contemporary annotations from William Cole denoting some of the avatars' real-life identities. "there was scarce a Thing as a Virgin of twenty Years of Age to be found in all the Island.all was flaming Lust; and from the Court to the Cottage all had their Share in amorous Intrigues." While sexual violence is rampant in Thule Aloisa's host the Chevalier Faire-Franc informs her of numerous girls assaulted and left pregnant by the son of the new Lord Chancellor for example much of the kingdom's activities center on the sex trade. Ambition and wealth drive residents "to get Money which at Night they as lavishly spend" at various houses of pleasure. In these descriptions readers visit the brothels of such real-life bawds as Mother Elizabeth Wisebourn here called Madona who dresses as a nun to recruit girls and uses medicine and magic to "restore" their virginity and continuously demand the highest prices -- a practice she infamously used to market her girls particularly Sally Salisbury and Sally Lodge before they rose to success in their own rights. Nearby Miss Edwards of Kensington possibly Kitty Fisher or Lucy Cooper resides "in open Fornication" yet "defies all Scandal." A string of famous men -- authors dignitaries and gentry -- are also exposed for their engagement with courtesans their elopements and their affairs. <br /> <br /> By volume II these details fade and the stories shift toward a more general erotic fantasy. But both notably participate in celebrating and expressing anxiety about the growing power of London's sex trade. With estimates of London's sex workers ranging widely from 8600-80000 it was undeniable that a vast portion of the population was engaged in sex-for-money whether as a provider or consumer Rogers. The money and public influence of courtesans like Kitty Fisher Lucy Cooper Sally Salisbury Sophia Baddeley Mary Robertson and others highlighted how women who defined traditional marriage economies could carve out their own wealth independence and community. <br /> <br /> ESTC T75813. Lowndes 2681. Not in the Register of Erotic Books. Printed for W. Webb unknown
Référence libraire : 5133
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[Erotic Literature] [Chute, Francis]
The Petticoat: An Heroi-comical Poem. In two books
London: 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
Référence libraire : 5634
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[Erotic Literature] Castillo Soloranzo, Alonso de
The Spanish Pole-Cat: or the Adventures of Seniora Rufina.
London: Printed for E. Curll in Fleet Street 1717. First thus. Contemporary full calf with gilt label to spine. All edges speckled red. Measuring 155 x 90mm and collating complete including frontis and terminal advertisement: 4 394 2. Shelfwear to extremities and slight bowing to boards. Contemporary annotations to front pastedown and front and rear endpapers with portions of rear endpapers excised; rear pastedown neatly removed. Internally a clean copy with a long closed tear to pages 213-214 professionally repaired with no loss to text and brief examples of pencil marginalia to pages 237-38. A pleasing copy of a scarce erotic book which last appeared at auction over three decades ago and which ESTC lists at only 12 U.S. libraries. <br /> <br /> Drawn from a 17th century Spanish picaresque novel following the intrigues of the female rake Rufina Alonso de Castillo's La Garduna de Sevilla 1642 first appeared in English in 1665 as a romantic adventure translated by John Davies as La Picara or The Triumphs of Female Subtilty. By the time of this translation however Rufina's persona took a more overtly libertine turn as she was declared a "whore" even within the title i.e. "pole-cat". Published by unscrupulous bookseller and printer Edmund Curll the text has clear erotic rather than romantic implications. "A notorious figure among the publishers of the early eighteenth century for his boldness lack of scruple publication of work without authors' consent and taste for erotic and scandalous publications" Curll did not involve himself in the release of texts that aimed to educate men and women into socially dictated marital roles Baines and Rogers. Instead his version of the Rufina story revels in its heroine's sexual appetite and capitalizes on the popularity of the English demi-monde -- courtesans such as Kitty Fisher Lucy Cooper and Charlotte Hayes -- by making her a more exoticized iteration of the fantasy they presented to men and women alike. <br /> <br /> Positioned as it is outside the British Empire Rufina's narrative invites readers to engage at a slight distance with questions not only about her sexual agency or even the agency of courtesans but instead about the agency of women more broadly. As Kathleen Lubey has pointed out erotic works from this period positioned "decadent sexual description" within a much larger prose structure that "posed questions about social justice and elaborated on gender inequity"; indeed "pornographic prose fiction" such as The Spanish Pole-Cat "rethinks which people count as persons to what degree they can claim property in their own bodies and the correspondence of those bodies to social identity" What Pornography Knows. Capable of stimulating the senses of all readers physically and intellectually Rufina the female libertinism and the sex trade she invokes encourage excitement over what can happen when limitations are stripped away from certain portions of the population that don't in reality have the ability to move with such freedom.<br /> <br /> ESTC T89213. Not in the Register of Erotic Books. Printed for E. Curll in Fleet Street unknown
Référence libraire : 5378
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[Erotic Literature] A Civilian
Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces. Being Select Trials at Doctors Commons for Adultery Cruelty Fornication Impotence &c. From the Year 1760 to the present Time. Vols 1-6 only
London: 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
Référence libraire : 3796
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[EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY] RAFFAELLI, Ron
Rapture: 13 Erotic Fantasies
New York: Grove Press 1975. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; unpaginated 16pp; 104 leaves of plates. Fine copy in the original dustwrapper unclipped very lightly rubbed at extremities Near Fine. Explicitly erotic imagery with some surrealist elements. Grove Press unknown
Référence libraire : 64151
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[Erotic Satire] [Widows and Sexuality] [Marriage and Economics]
The Triumph of Sentiment - The Prospect of Happiness - or a Picture for Dotards
London: S. W. Fores 1800. First edition. Illustrated hand-colored broadside measuring 270 x 400mm and printed to verso only. Faint offsetting to recto and faint traces of mounting to corners. In all a Fine example of this visual satire commenting on the phenomenon of younger men seeking marriage with elderly widows for their own financial gain -- and the cultural anxiety surrounding the marital sexuality of such brides. Unrecorded in ESTC and OCLC we have located two examples of the present work at the British Museum and Yale. <br /> <br /> The present broadside draws together a wide matrix of debates and social anxieties surrounding the economic and sexual status of widows and the financial motivations for marriage among second sons and men of the middle class. Though women were more frequently forced into experiencing marriage as a form of 'honorable prostitution' in which their physical desirability served as their key for accessing wealth and stability under coverture it was increasingly acknowledged that large swaths of young men also suffered under this system. And while widows could escape the system -- shifting from the disempowered femme covert to the more legally independent femme sole on their husbands' deaths -- there was both a social fantasy of reinserting them into the marriage market as a means for regaining control over their money and bodies as well as a social anxiety about their ability to corrupt through the range of knowledge and authority they gained through previous marital experience. Here a young man walks his aging crone down the aisle. Ornately clad and expressing her anticipation for "the comforts of matrimony" she is ridiculed by the ministers at the pulpit who posit that if "matrimony was first ordained.for a remedy against fornication" then "the remedy will be worse than the disease" in this instance. Untroubled the young groom focuses on the land deeds bank notes and jewelry accounts which stuff his pockets -- assets which will legally become his after the ceremony and which serve as his marital comforts. Meanwhile two young women observe from the sidelines one of them planning her future with the groom after his aging bride's eventual demise. "Those jewels will look better on me than on the last owner" she notes as her companion whispers hopefully "you'll let me take a morning ride with you sometimes."<br /> <br /> A visual commentary on the financial and social issues surrounding marriage under coverture which Daniel Defoe would deride as "matrimonial whoredom."<br /> <br /> <br /> British Museum 1935.0522.8.109. Yale Center for British Art B1974.12.328. S. W. Fores unknown
Référence libraire : 5629
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[EROTIC WORLD OF LATE EDO TOKYO - KAWARABAN WITH MAP].
当代色道混雑書全. Tōdai shikidō konzassho zen. Current Information on Sexual Topics
Japan. 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
Référence libraire : 215738
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[EROTIC, CURIOSA] - YOUNG (Wayland) -
Der verleugnete Eros.
Munchen, Rutten + loening verlag, 1966 ; grand in-8, 400 pp., cartonnage d'éditeur avec jaquette.
Référence libraire : 200806492
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