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Manrape
Marta Tikkanen
London: Virago, 1978.Translated from the Swedish ‘Man kan inte valdtas’ by Alison Weir. The first English edition released alongside the 1978 film ‘Men Can’t Be Raped’. “On her fortieth birthday Eva Randers, library assistant, divorced, living alone, is asked to dance by Marty Wester at a local disco. After a few drinks they go back to his flat, where he proceeds to tie her up, pour liquor over her, and rape her. .. She’s stunned, humiliated, frightened, confused. She doesn’t report it to the police. And she can’t and won’t forget it. Stubbornly and obsessionally she makes her plan to alert the world to her experience…” (from jacket flap)
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Furniture by Harris, Scarfe Limited
Harris, Scarfe Limited
Adelaide: Thornquest Press, No date.1930s illustrated furniture catalogue by the Australian retailer founded in Adelaide in 1849 and still operating today.
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The Dog in Australasia
Walter Beilby
Melbourne: George Robertson and Company, 1897.The first Australian dog breeder’s manual. FERGUSON 6885.
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The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking Them
M. S. Lovell
London: Reeve & Co., 1867.The definitive work on the subject of edible snails, shellfish, oysters, mussels, etc. This copy with the Reeve & Co. 24 page 1867 catalogue of publications in Botany, Conchology, Entomology, Chemistry, Travels Antiquities, etc. at the rear.
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Photographic Views of Cheltenham and Its Neighbourhood
Francis Bedford
Chester: Catherall & Prichard, No date.Unrecorded view album produced from the prolific series of stereographs of England and Wales by one of England’s leading 19th century photographers. Bedford helped to found the Royal Photographic Society and received numerous royal commissions. This copy with 5 additional Bedford albumens of the same or larger size mounted on interleaves. The issued photographs are: 747. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, Looking Up.; 749. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, The Central Avenue; 750. Cheltenham, The Promenande Drive, The Side Avenue; 751. Cheltenham, The Queen’s Hotel; 753. Cheltenham, St. Mary’s (The Parish) Church; 754. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Principal Front; 755. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Chapel; 756. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Interior of the Chapel; 757. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Gymnasium; 758. Cheltenham, The High Street; 759. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa and Lake; 760. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa, The Pump Room; 761. The Devil’s Chimney, Leckhampton; 744. Tewkesbury Abbey, From the West; 746. Twekesbury Abbey, Interior of the Choir, Looking West; 743. Twekesbury, High Street and Old Houses. The additional photographs are captioned in manuscript: 757. Plough Hotel; 2350. Winter Gardens; 748. Promenade; 2378; 2346.
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Twenty-Five Years in The Rifle Brigade
William Surtees
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and T. Cadell, 1833.A soldier’s account in the 95th Rifle Regiment / Rifle Brigade, including the Peninsula War. The first edition, first printing, in the original unrestored boards.
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A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by His Excellency Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, K. B. &c. &c. &c
James Moore
London: Joseph Johnson, 1809.The second edition with an engraved portrait frontispiece and a view of the British and French positions before Corunna, and two folding maps. This copy with an added plate of text, Lines on the Burial of Sir John Moore, 1809, and with the appendix text bound before the main text, except for the final leaf which is still at the end.
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Candide ou l’Optimisme
Voltaire; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1933.Voltaire’s Candide with illustrations by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 2,500 numbered copies.
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L’Ingenu: Histoire Veritable Tiree des Manuscrits du Pere Quesnel 1767
Voltaire; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1953.Voltaire’s L’Ingenu with illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi, a small number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province
Gustave Flaubert; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1953.Flaubert’s Madame Bovary with illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (2 Volumes)
Jacques Casanova; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1955.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Contes et Nouvelles de La Fontaine (2 Volumes)
Jean de La Fontaine; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1937-38.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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[Illustrated Story of a Couple Having Sex]
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of 16 erotic drawings in black ink and coloured crayon on thin tracing paper depicting a heterosexual couple having sex. The final leaf with the text (signed?) Kray.
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Ein Spaziergang
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of drawings in pencil and coloured crayon on thin tracing paper mounted on sheets depicting a heterosexual couple entering a hotel for sex and being watched by a masturbating clerk through the keyhole. 14 sheets, each with mounted manuscript captions in German, and an illustrated title leaf mounted to the front pastedown.
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Ist der Ofen noch so klein, muss er doch…gereinigt sein
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of three drawings in pencil, ink, and coloured crayon on a single folded sheet, depicting a woman and a chimney sweep, with manuscript text in German: [No matter how small the oven is, it still needs to be…cleaned].
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Si Kaddous Fete le Mouloud
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1940 handmade erotic booklet, being a series of 16 printed leaves depicting the salacious cartoon fantasy of Kaddous on Mawlid. Each leaf with printed text in French.
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[Erotic Illustrated Story of a Monk and a Woman]
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of 10 collotype-printed leaves depicting sex between a monk and a young woman, most of the images with another erotic work hanging in the background. A German printed chromolithograph of a child angel mounted to the upper wrapper.
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Commentarius Historico-Politicus de Rebus Turcicis
Johann Heinrich Boecler
Budissae [Bautzen]: Davidis Richteri, 1717.[A Historical-Political Commentary on Turkish Affairs. Now First Published from Manuscript, Together with a Preface and Summaries, Together with a Most Instructed Library of Turkish Writers, N. C. J.]
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An English Translation of the Satyarth Prakash
Durga Prasad
Lahore: Virjanand Press, 1908.Literally: Expose of Right Sense (of Vedic Religion). Of Maharrshi Swami Dayanand Saraswati, The Luther of India, Being A Guide to Vedic Hermeneutics. The first printing of the second translation into English following the 1906 translation of Chiranjiva Bharadwaja of The Light of Truth first published in Hindi in 1875 and revised in 1882.
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Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria
Arthur Adams
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870.