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Omphale: Histoire Rococo
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartTheophile Gautier
Paris: A. Ferroud, 1896.First published within ‘Une larme du diable’ in 1839, and here published separately for the first time with illustrations by Ad. Lalauze. Drawing on the myth of Omphale, the Lydian queen to whom Hercules was sold into servitude, Gautier evokes the gender role-reversal in which the hero spins wool in women’s clothing while Omphale dons his lion skin and wields his club. One of 50 numbered copies on Japon with a second state of the illustrations with remarques (from a total edition of 300), in a fine half leather binding, signed E. Carayon, retaining the original wrappers and with the prospectus bound in.
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Le Tableau de la Croix Represente dans les ceremonies de la Sainte messe ensemble le tresor de la devotion aux soufrancesde N.re I. C. le tout enrichi de belles figures
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Collin; Francoise Mazot
Paris: Chez F. Mazot, 1651-52.First issue of this wholly engraved devotional work, with both text and illustrations engraved on copper rather than set in type. The engraved title, depicting Christ in the Garden of Olives, is signed by Jean Collin (1623-1701), the Reims engraver. 35 illustrated openings follow, each pairing a stage of the Mass with a corresponding episode from the Passion of Christ, the Mass scenes possibly deriving from earlier Continental devotional models while the ornamental borders are Collin’s own work, followed by four further single-page plates numbered 36 to 39. The volume continues with litanies, including engraved busts of Jesus Admirabilis and Mater Amabilis, the Litaniae de nomine Iesu signed by the engraver I. Durant, followed by the seven Penitential Psalms in historiated borders, additional prayers, and the engraved privilege dated 9 June 1651 and the imprint dated 20 September 1652. This collation identifies the book as the first issue of the first edition, preceding the later impressions bearing a 1653 privilege and the revised 1653 edition. Jeanne Duportal identified the work as one of three publications whose engravings best exemplify the character of French religious illustration in the mid-seventeenth century. The contemporary pointille gilt binding, decorated with fine dotted and curved tools and retaining its metal clasps, is entirely characteristic of luxury Parisian devotional bindings of the period.
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Feliccia ou mes fredaines
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrea de Nerciat; Louis Icart
Paris: Georges Guillit, 1947.A libertine novel first published in 1775, Nerciat’s Felicia ou mes fredaines was repeatedly suppressed by the authorities, with illustrated editions particularly liable to seizure and prosecution. Louis Icart (1888-1950) the French Art Deco illustrator best known for his erotic and fashionable feminine imagery, supplied twenty original colour etchings for this edition, printed by Joseph Zichieri. One of 30 numbered artist’s copies (from a total edition of 530), this copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet-Riffieux incorporating a textile onlay of a nude female figure.
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Histoire du Portefaix avec Les Jeunes Filles: Conte Des Mille et Une Nuits
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartDr J. -C. Mardrus
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1920.Illustrated by Joe Hamman. One of 500 numbered copies on velin de cuve (of a total edition of 550), this copy bound in Kieffer’s stunning relief design of female nudes and monkeys with his ticket to the verso of the front free endpaper
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La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAnatole France; Guy de Montabel
Paris: Simon Kra, 1925.One of 153 numbered copies on velin de Hollande with an additional suite on the same paper, from a total edition of 1064 numbered copies. This copy in a fine binding, signed E. Berthat, with painted illustrations to the boards and spine.
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Le Roman de la Momie
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTheophile Gautier; Alex. Lunois
Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1901.The principal deluxe illustrated edition of Gautier’s 1858 Egyptological romance, centred on the discovery of the mummy of Tahoser and the narrative of her love for a young Hebrew. Illustrated by Alexandre Lunois (1863-1916), who travelled extensively in Egypt and based his compositions on direct observation of ancient architecture, ornament, and costume. One of 50 copies on Japon, issued with a supplementary suite of the illustrations, bound with the original wrappers and prospectus, in a signed, richly tooled Egyptian style binding by Chambolle-Duru.
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L’Enfer de Joseph Prudhomme savoir Deux Gougnottes et La Grisette et L’Etudiant
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Henry Monnier]; [Jean Dulac]
Paris: Sans la Permission Roy Louis Philippe, No date.Clandestine edition, circa 1929, illustrating Henry Monnier’s Prudhomme. One of 20 deluxe copies on Imperial Japan paper (from a total edition of 320), with the erotic plates in a second state in black and white with remarques, and an additional rejected plate not included with the standard issue. This is the first edition illustrated by Jean Dulac; a later edition with an entirely new suite of illustrations by Dulac was issued a few years afterward. DUTEL 1481. Finely bound by Henri Alix, with the original wrappers bound in.
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BEV. Blad van Eva: de boom der vergetelheid afgerukt
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartLeonie Greefkens
Amsterdam: BEV, 1988-1989.A complete set of the 1980s Dutch erotic journal for heterosexual women. Edited by Leonie Greefkens with art design by Willem de Ridder, Paul Kooiker, Henk tur Kulve, and Maud Vink. Numerous contributors of erotic photography, text, and comics. This set has been collected and finely bound in vellum with the original wrappers and housed in a matching slipcase
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
AU$1,000 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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Ars Amandi. L’Art D’Aimer
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartOvide; Pierre Lievre; Andre Lambert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Art of Love by Ovid, a new translation into French by Pierre Lievre and with illustrations by Andre Lambert. One of 404 numbered copies on Arches vellum (from a total edition of 500), this copy for Maurice de Smet de Naeyer, bound in half leather signed Weckesser.
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La Fille aux Yeux d’Or
AU$2,000 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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Les Civilises
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere; Henri Le Riche
Paris: Librairie de la Collection des Dix, 1926.French colonizers indulge in fornication, opium, and general debauchery in late 19th century Saigon (then French Cochincina, modern day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). One of 200 numbered copies of Arches vellum (of a total edition of 300), bound with the original wrappers.
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Salome. Drame en un acte.
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde
Paris and Londres: Librairie de L’Art Independant and Elkin Mathew et John Lane, 1893.First edition, one of 600 copies, the title page device by Felicien Rops. MASON 348. This copy rebound in a fine signed art nouveau binding by Hatchards, Piccadilly, without the wrappers, with a plentiful quantity of blank leaves at the rear to allow for the binding design.
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Le Spleen de Paris
AU$1,400 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire; L. Lafnet
: Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, 1940 [1941].One of 106 numbered copies reserved for members of the final illustrated book by Luc Lafnet, with 90 etchings each with tissue guard.
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Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry,
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartFredrick Accum
London: Thomas Boys, 1817.Which are Easily Performed, and Unattended by Danger. 103 chemistry experiments with magical application for the conjuring chemist. The rare first edition with the 60 page, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus & Instruments Employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical Mineralogy, and in the Pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Voltaic Electricity, Manufactured and Sold by the author, at the rear, the separate title on the verso of pp. 191. Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist who lived in London from 1793 to 1821. He played a key role in the establishment of gas lighting in London and wrote a number of popular chemistry works, most notably campaigning against the unscrupulous use of chemical additives in food in his 1820 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. HALL 1, TOOLE STOTT 1. This copy in a Zaehnsdorf half leather binding with the author’s calling card laid in and the bookplates of magicians Roland Winder and Ricky Jay.
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L’Homme qui a perdu son Ombre
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartAdelbert de Chamisso; Bernard Naudin
Paris: A. M. Peignot, 1913.French translation from the original German of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (English: The Man with No Shadow) by the exiled French aristocrat, poet, and botanist, Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838). The story follows Peter Schlemihl who sells his shadow to the Devil for infinite money. The first edition with 15 engravings by French artist Bernard Naudin (1876-1946) limited to 100 numbered copies, this being one of 75 copies on Van Gelder paper, in a signed fine binding by Bernasconi with the original wrappers bound in. Peter Schlemihl was Naudin’s first major project after giving up painting to devote himself exclusively to printmaking.
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Light Through Darkness
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
New York: The Orion Press, 1963.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, on mescaline, psilocybin, and marijuana. Originally published in French in 1961, then translated into English by Haakon Chevalier and first published in America in 1963. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy in a fine signed full leather binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire based on the original jacket design.
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Miserable Miracle (La Mescaline)
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1956.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, while on mescaline. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy has been finely bound in full leather by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire, with a design based on one of Michaux’s drawings. One of the standard edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is 1,256.
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Atlas on the History of Spectacles (Volume 1)
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartW. Poulet
Bonn: Wayenborgh, 1978.Volume 1 only of the 2 volume set. Volume One being a catalogue of spectacles from the collections of Carl Zeiss, Otto Hallauer, and Pierre Marly. Translated from the German by Frederick C. Blodi with an introduction by Dr. Wolfgang Pfeiffer, ‘A Short History of Spectacles’ by H. W. Holtmann, and ‘A Contribution to the History of Contact Lenses’ by Hans-Walter Roth Ulm. This being one of the deluxe edition bound in half leather by K. N. W. Page & Co., Edinburgh.