‎Erotique‎

‎[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.‎

‎[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]‎

‎Etwas späterer Druck der 2. Ausgabe (entgegen der Angabe auf dem Titalblatt den Verlagsanzeigen nach vermutlich um 1772), hier die kleine Ausgabe. Französischsprachige Ausgabe. Barbier I, 378. Gay/Lemonnyer I, 344. vgl. Cohen/Ricci I, 308 (große Ausgabe). Mit gestochenem allegorischem Titelblatt, kupfergestochener Titelvignette, einer Kupfertafel, insgesamt 44 figurativen Vignetten (je eine Vignette zu Beginn jeden Gedichts sowie eine zum Abschluss desselben als Cul-de-lampe) gestochen nach Charles Eisen und Clément-Pierre Marillier von Longueil, Aliamet, de Launay, Masquelier etc. sowie weiteren ornamentalen Vignetten. Die erste Ausgabe war in sehr kleiner Auflage ohne den der vorliegenden Ausgabe zugehörigen Buchschmuck und in geringerem Umfang im gleichen Jahr unter dem Titel "Les Baisers, Ou Collection des petits poèmes érotiques", ebenfalls bei Delalain (hier mit Jorry), erschienen (vgl. Cohen/Ricci ibidem). In vorliegenden Exemplar der zweiten Ausgabe sind die "Imitations de plusieurs poètes latins" inbegriffen. Ohne die Fehler in der Pagination, die die ersten Auflagen der zweiten Ausgabe kennzeichnen. Mit gestochenem Exlibris auf vorderem Vorsatz. Einband an den Kanten leicht berieben, Rücken gering gedunkelt, Seiten nur leicht gebräunt. Sehr gutes Exemplar. Slightly later printing of the second edition. French language edition. Dark blue leather binding of the late 19th century in the style of the period with 5 raised bands, gold-embossed spine title, floral inner edge gilding, marbled endpaper and gilt edges. With allegorical engraved title page, copper engraved title vignette, a copper engraved plate, 44 figurative vignettes (each of the poems with one vignette at the beginning and one at the end as cul-de-lampe) engraved after Charles Eisen and Clément-Pierre Marillier by Longueil, Aliamet, de Launay, Masquelier etc. as well as several other ornamental vignettes. The first edition was published in the same year in a very small print run without the book decoration that illuminates the edition at hand, also by Delalain (in this case with Jorry). This copy of the second edition contains the "Imitations de plusieurs poètes latins". It does not show the pagination errors as the first print runs of this edition do. With engraved bookplate on front endpaper. Cover edges slightly rubbed, spine a bit darkened, pages only slightly darkened. Fine copy.‎

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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).‎

‎"Un été à la campagne n'est pas seulement un petit roman plein d'esprit, et du plus gaulois, c'est encore une des productions les plus singulières de la fin du second Empire, dont il évoque le dévergondage plein de bonhomie et de simplicité. Cette époque sut allier les raffinements et l'élégance avec beaucoup de bon sens. L'apparence pleine de chic, de gaieté et en même temps d'une louable pondération qu'avait la société sous Napoléon III fait tout le charme de cette amusante production mi-innocente, mi-licencieuse, mais dans laquelle aucune expression grossière ne vient blesser le lecteur." (Guillaume Apollinaire, introduction à l'édition de 1900). Ce livre fut immédiatement condamné à la destruction pour outrages à la morale publique et aux bonnes mœurs. Il se plaît à dépeindre la découverte des plaisirs charnels de deux adolescentes. ''Comme nous ne voulons pas prendre notre monde en traître, noue engageons fort les gens à principes sévères, à mœurs aussi austères que leurs principes, nous engageons fort les chastes, les dévots, les prudes et tous ceux, en un mot, qui ont la prétention de faire leur salut à grand renfort de macérations et de continence, à se bien garder d'ouvrir ce livre, dont la lecture compromettrait gravement, nous les en prévenons, les chances qu'ils peuvent avoir à une stalle numérotée dans le paradis.'' (Avant-propos des éditions anciennes). ''Ce roman érotique moderne attribué à la plume élégante de Droz peut soutenir la comparaison avec d'autres productions de XVIIIème siècle en ce genre. Il offre cette particularité, comme Gamiani, que, bien qu'on y trouve des scènes d'une extrême licence, on n'y rencontre pas une seule expression libre. Cette débauche d'esprit est d'autant plus dangereuse qu'elle n'effarouche pas le lecteur et corrompt les imaginations en rendant presque le vice aimable.'' (Perceau). Cette édition moderne est délicatement illustrée par Gaston Barret. L'illustration n'est pas libre au sens où l'on ne voit pas de scènes franchement explicites ou qu'on pourrait rapprocher de la pornographie qui illustre habituellement ce titre. Ce sont de jolis nus lascifs typiques du style de l'artiste Gaston Barret. L'ensemble est tout à fait délicat et sensuel. BEL EXEMPLAIRE DU TIRAGE DE TÊTE AVEC SUITE ET ESQUISSES.‎

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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,‎

‎Roman philosophique et satirique, qui fut attribué à Voltaire. Du Laurens raille les francs-maçons, les jésuites, les croyances ridicules ou les manies, et s'attaque autant à la Philosophie qu'aux abus de la Religion. Son style, qui fait penser à la fois à Rabelais et à Voltaire, regorge de bouffonneries et d'obscénités, de traits d'esprit et de raisonnements absurdes et cocasses ou de citations de la Bible ou des Pères de l'Eglise détournées pour en accentuer le ridicule. L'ouvrage connut de très nombreuses éditions, et fut condamné trois fois à la destruction en septembre 1851, 1862 et 1865 comme outrageant la morale publique et religieuse Très bel exemplaire Gay-Lemonnyer I, 637 - Laporte, Bibliogr. clérico-galante, 69....... Roman considéré comme licencieux et outrageant les murs, et ce, même au XIXème siècle puisque le tribunal de la Seine ordonna par trois fois sa destruction en 1852, 1862 et 1865 (Cf. Drujon, Ouvrages poursuivis, page 98)....... Bibl: Dictionnaire des oeuvres erotiques, pp. 104 - 105. ..........RARETE........en bon état malgré le léger défaut signalé (very good condition in spite of the small defect indicated). bon état‎

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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

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‎[EROTICA]:‎

‎3 orfèvres, à la Saint Eloi. Du quartier latin à la salle de Garde.‎

‎En Sorbonne, pour l'esbaudissment des Escholiers, 1430. 2 volumes in-8 brochés de 259-[6] et [6]- de 259 à 577-[10] pages, couvertures rempliées de papier crème, imrpimé en rouge et noir. Partiellement coupé.‎

‎Le second volume est enrichi de 5 illustrations en couleurs, très libres. Important recueil de chansons de carabins, parfois signées ou datées. Édition imprimée sur papier vergé, qui pourrait avoir été faite vers 1930. Dutel mentionne (2531) une édition similaire à la différence que notre exemplaire a une pagination continue, et que seul le second volume est illustré (Dutel mentionne 14 illustrations pour l'édition qu'il décrit). Nos 5 planches semblent être un ajout artisanal et non le travail de l'éditeur. La justification mentionne que "Cet ouvrage a été tiré à un petit nombre d'exemplaires qui ne sont pas destinés au commerce et réservés aux seuls souscripteurs.".‎

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‎[EROTICA]:‎

‎Caresses...Ou Les mémoires intimes de Jacqueline de R... Préface de Serge de Fontanges.‎

‎Paris, Éditions du Couvre-feu, 1933. Grand in-8, demi-basane beige, dos à nerfs.‎

‎Tiré à 500 exemplaires numérotés, celui-ci n° 80. Imprimé sur papier vergé ivoire, texte encadré d'un filet orange. Pia, 169; pas dans Dutel.‎

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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.‎

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‎[EROTICA]:‎

‎L'écrin secret du bibliophile. Mylord Arsouille ou Les bamboches - Les préservatifs des dangers de l'amour à travers les âges - L'origine des Cons sauvages, la manière de les apprivoiser, le moyen de prédire toutes choses adevnir par icieux, Plus le bail à ferme desdits cons, avec les sens et les rentes et tout ce qui en dépend, Plus la source du gros fessier des nourrices et la raison pourquoi elles sont si fendues entre les jambes - Les chansons secrètes de Bilitis. / Le cortège priapique, suivi de Julie ou la rose - La semaine secrète de Vénus - La porte de l'âne - La fée paillardine ou la princesse ratée. / Le livre de volupté (Bab-Nameh) - Les confessions d'un perverti - Les doléances du portier des Chartreux ou Les conseils de Dom Bougre - Douze aventures érotiques du bossu Mayeux écrites par lui-même - A la Feuille de rose, maison turque.‎

‎Paris, Cercle du livre précieux, 1960 - 1962. 13 volumes in-8 en feuilles, sous trois étuis de soie moirée avec chemise (dos légèrement tachés).‎

‎Nombreuses gravures in et hors-texte. Beau recueil de textes libertins ou érotiques de diverses époques. Très joliment imprimés en deux tons et avec des typographies différentes, chaque volumes comporte des illustrations soit hors-texte, soit in texte (ou des bandeaux, et culs-.de lampe). Tirage limité à 1500 exemplaires, certains sont numérotés, d'autres en hors-commerce. Charmante publication.‎

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‎[EROTICA] DALI Salvador:‎

‎Les métamorphoses érotiques. Choix de dessins exécutés de 1940 à 1968.‎

‎Lausanne, A l’Erotitiade, 1969. 1 vol. en feuilles in-folio de 60-[] pages et X planches. Sous chemise en pleine toile rouge et étui pleine toile bleue nuit. Très belle condition.‎

‎Illustré de planches en noir, d’après les dessins de l’artiste, et une vignette couleurs. Suivi de 10 planches à part intitulées : Planches extraites d’un traité des systèmes érotiques et des mille façons masturbatoires des Romains à Dali. Tiré à 1200 exemplaires. Celui-ci un des 900 numérotés sur papier Zerkall.‎

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‎[EROTICA] GAUTIER Théophile:‎

‎Lettre à la présidente. Voyage en Italie. 1850.‎

‎[Paris], de l'imprimerie du musée secret du roi de Naples [Jean Fort], 1890 [circa 1914/1918]. In-8 de 64 pages, demi-chagrin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, premier plat de couverture conservé.‎

‎Édition publiée à 100 exemplaires sur papier vergé van Gelder Zonen (35). Dutel, 457 annonce la présence d'une reproduction d'un portrait de l'auteur, absent ici.‎

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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.‎

‎Les Mémoires de Miss Coote (Miss Coote's confessions) sont un des plus frappants (si l'on ose dire) témoignages du réveil de la librairie clandestine anglaise vers la fin du règne de Victoria. Roman de flagellation, bien sûr, comme la presque totalité de ce qui vient d'Angleterre à l'époque, mais qui offre la particularité de présenter à parts à peu près égales la flagellation masculine et la flagellation féminine, dans des péripéties allègres dont finalement tout ce petit monde adolescent se tire avec juste le cuisant - et à la fin du compte délicieux -, souvenir. Tous nos envois se font avec suivi. I ship worldwide, have no hesitation to contact me for any question.‎

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‎[EROTICA & CURIOSA] Rev. Wm. M. Cooper (pseud James Glass Bertram)‎

‎Flagellation & the Flagellants. A History of the Rod in All Countries from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. A New Edition Revised & Corrected‎

‎London: William Reeves N.d. ca 1890s. Revised edition first published 1868; this an undated ca. 1890s reprint. Publisher's gilt-pictorial maroon cloth; xii544pp; illus. Covers with some uneven discoloration most notably to rear board which appears to have been treated with red dye but internally a tight very clean and bright copy; a Very Good copy overall. Bertram's perenially-popular quasi-erotic survey of ass-whipping through the ages illustrated from various sources. William Reeves unknown‎

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‎[EROTICA -- NUDE PHOTOGRAPHY].‎

‎Art studies magazine for art lovers and art students. . . .‎

‎Wilmington DE: Art Studies Magazine King Publishing January ca. 1925. 4to. 48 pp unpaginated. printed throughout in blue & sepia-tinted colours numerous plates photographic plates & illustrations throughout. Self-printed sepia-tinted photographic softcovers slight creasing at corner very slight nick on back cover still VG copy. First edition of this scarce “Art†pulp filled with nude art studies with photos of Ziegfeld girls such as Margit de Fest Margaret Dybfest Rita Royce in revealing cropped shorts overalls and straw hat by Ira D. Schwarz a favorite Ziegfeld photographer and many from the famed White Studios of New York and Henningsen. King Publishing was also well known for their decidedly prurient pulps such as Real Story and Frolics which often featured nearly nude pulp cover art and even pin-ups and nude photo studies within. Art Studies Magazine, King Publishing], paperback‎

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‎[EROTICA -- COLLECTION].‎

‎In back of a Cadillac; The love life of Christine; No use for rubbers; Stories very true; She wears no bloomers. . . ; Blondes and redheads. . . ; Experience in a bathhouse; Dreams of a virgin; My first night out; Sex and sadness; Sex and Sadness; Honeymooner’s delight; Wet dreams; It’s delightful; Sexology; Amorous secretary. . . .‎

‎Havana Cuba; Humpville IL; Hartsville France; & Paris France: Hotnuts Publishing Co.; Hotballs Publishing Co.; Camel Publishing Co.; Hearton Publishing Co.; M. Seufferin & Co. ca. 1935-1945. Sixteen vols. 16mo. 4.25 x 5.5 in. 512 pp all 15 separately paginated. All w/ 3 photo plates. Assorted colour printed softcovers printed borders on each minor edgewear scuffing some dustsoiling occasional wear & creasing to corners still a VG- set. First editions of these pseudonymous erotic fiction “reader†pamphlets published regularly from the 1930’s into the 1940’s and none with verifiable publication information. Produced anonymously by the same publisher’s of girlie pin-up photos at the time they featured erotic amateur photography and fairly explicit storytelling often with elements of BDSM multiple partners extramarital affairs incest and assorted other taboo breaking elements -- all of which were severely restricted by obscenity laws into the Mid-20th-Century. They were not inexpensive at the time and typically priced at $ 5.00 although presumably underground booksellers and distributors would offer volume discounts. Over half of these do not appear in Yale’s collection of erotic readers at the Beinecke including “Love life of Christine†“Dreams of a virgin†“Sex and Sadness†“Honeymooner’s Delight†“Wet Dreams†“It’s Delightful†“Sexology†and “Amorous Secretary.†See: Tina Evans Guide to the Collection of Erotic Fiction Reader Pamphlets YCAL MSS 1621 2024. Hotnuts Publishing Co.; Hotballs Publishing Co.; Camel Publishing Co.; Hearton Publishing Co.; M. Seufferin & Co., paperback‎

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‎[Erotica]‎

‎An Englishwoman's Love-Letters‎

‎New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. In original cloth faded. With early previous owner signature. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover‎

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