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Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province
Read MoreGustave 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)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques 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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Theorie de L’Amour et de la Jalousie
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. J. Stahl [Pierre-Jules Hetzel]
Bruxelles: J. B. Tarride, 1853.Moral philosophical study of love, passion, and jealousy by the Jules Verne publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel published under his P. J. Stahl pseudonym. This copy bound in a fine half leather binding signed De Watines.
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Contes et Nouvelles de La Fontaine (2 Volumes)
Read MoreJean 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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Eve Ressuscitee ou La Belle Sans Chemise
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
San Remo: J. Gay et Fils, Editeurs, 1873.[Eve Resurrected or The Beautiful One Without a Shirt]. 19th century reissue of this anonymous libertine novel with a new preface and a photographic frontispiece of one of the engravings by Bovinet. One of 200 numbered copies, this copy finely bound in half leather with the original wrappers.
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[Illustrated Story of a Couple Having Sex]
Read MoreAnonymous
: 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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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman
London: Victor Gollancz, 1990.First edition, first printing, in a full leather modern art binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire.
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Ein Spaziergang
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
: 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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Lucifer
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStephen Skinner; Neville Drury
Sydney: The Lucifer Publishing Company, 1968.One shot Australian underground newspaper edited by Stephen Skinner with artwork by Neville Drury, Bob Smith, C. Foley, and Michele. Writings include an experiential report on the psychedelic STP (DOM), Bob Dylan’s film Don’t Look Back, Flying Saucers, Alchemy, and more.
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Photographic Views of Cheltenham and Its Neighbourhood
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis 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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Ist der Ofen noch so klein, muss er doch…gereinigt sein
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
: 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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The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking Them
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. 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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Si Kaddous Fete le Mouloud
Read MoreAnonymous
: 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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La Fille aux Yeux d’Or
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHonore de Balzac; Almery Lobel-Riche
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Girl with the Golden Eyes. An aristocratic libertine becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman and sets about seducing her. Alas, his conquest uncovers a hidden lesbian relationship and he finds himself entangled in a web of erotic obsession and fatal jealousy. First published in 1835, this is the first edition with illustrations by Almery Lobel-Riche. One of 40 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states and an original drawing by Lobel-Riche (from a total edition of 500). This copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet.
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[Erotic Illustrated Story of a Monk and a Woman]
Read MoreAnonymous
: 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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Armed with Madness
AU$3,250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Butts; Jean Cocteau
London: Wishart & Company, 1928.Experimental novel based on the myth of the Holy Grail. A one time student of Aleister Crowley, Butts is credited as a co-author of the 1912 Magick (Book 4). In 1921 she spent time at Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema, not enjoying her stay, and departing with a drug habit. Armed with Madness explores the relationships (including homoeroticism and bisexuality) and ritualism among a group of young bohemians living at a country home. Considered a masterpiece of Modernist prose. One of 100 numbered copies of the Deluxe Edition on handmade paper with illustrations by Jean Cocteau.
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Commentarius Historico-Politicus de Rebus Turcicis
Read MoreJohann 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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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Maynard Keynes
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919.First edition, first printing of the highly influential economics work published in the wake of WWI, establishing Keynes’ as one of the world’s leading economists.
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An English Translation of the Satyarth Prakash
Read MoreDurga 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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Coffee: Its History, Cultivation, and Uses
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Hewitt, Jr.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872.19th century history of coffee. Brief mention of Australia’s potential as a coffee growing region, as well a global listing of tariffs on coffee, including Australian colonies. This copy signed by the author, and with the world map, A Chart of the Globe Showing the Several Places Where Coffee is or May be Produced and Where it is also used together with The Telegraph Lines in operation or contemplated for completing the Circuit of the Globe, considered the first American map on coffee.