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Douze Douzains de Dialogues ou Petites Scenes Amoureuses
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Pierre Louys]; [Andre Collot]
: No publisher, No date.Facsimile edition (c. 1935) of an erotic manuscript illustrated with 12 coloured plates attributed to Andre Collot. One of 100 numbered copies. DUTEL 1428.
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Poesies Erotiques
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Pierre Louys]; [Marcel Vertes]
Barcelone [Paris]: Atarazanas (Barrio Chino), 1932.One of 150 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder, from a total edition of 165 numbered copies plus 5 hors commerce. The first and only edition of Louys’ erotic poems illustrated by Vertes.
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Les Aventures de Tintin (8 Volumes)
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerge
Paris: France Loisirs, 2008.Gift box set of The Adventures of Tintin.
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Amours d’Extreme-Orient
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartO. Diraison-Seylor
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905.A dismissed French naval officer’s study of the “exotic” women of Asia and the Pacific, illustrated with nude plates by Amedee Vignola. The work comprises extended chapters on Japan, China, and Madagascar, alongside sections devoted to Creole women and the Pacific, with shorter episodes on the women of Christchurch (New Zealand), Sydney (Australia); in which, after the visitor’s humorous impressions of the locals’ obsession with the harbour, the working women and hullabaloo of Woolloomooloo and the racetrack are described; and Tonga, Tahiti, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Wallis, and French Polynesia. Issued by Charles Carrington, the Paris publisher best known for finely produced editions of erotic and controversial literature circulating on the margins of official respectability. Unrecorded in Trove, this cataloguer locates only three physical institutional holdings worldwide: Ohio State University, the Bibliotheque nationale de France, and the Bibliotheque de Geneve.
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Le Grand Ordinaire
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Andre Thirion]
: [Eric Losfeld], 1934 [1950s].1950s facsimile edition published by Eric Losfeld of the 1943 original published by Robert J. Godet with illustrations by d’Oscar Dominguez, both published with the false 1934 imprint. DUTEL 1676.
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Le Marseille Curieux
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre d’Agranon
Paris: L. d’Autrec, No date.The Curious Marseilles. Guide-Souvenir des Touristes et des Etrangers dans l’ancien Quartier Noble de Marseille Devenu Le Celebre Quartier Reserve. 1922 illustrated guide for sex tourists to the brothels of Marseille in the south of France. Copious illustrated with photographs of working women, a folding map of the area, and numerous advertisements.
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Les Passions d’Helene
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGabrielle d’Estree
: Collection Amour et Fantaisie [Eric Losfeld], No date.Finely bound clandestine French erotica published by Eric Losfeld, c. 1956, and first condemned in November 1958. DUTEL 2146.
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Le Panier aux Ordures suivi de Quelques Chansons, Ejusdem Farine
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Armand Gouffe]
Canton [Bruxelles]: W. Field et Tching-Kong [Gay & Douce], No date.Belgian clandestine publication of the erotic poems of Armand Gouffe. The erotic title vignette depicts a young lady lifting her skirt to a priest in a kitchen. This copy from the collection of erotophile Gershon Legman, with bibliographical notes in his hand and signed by him. Legman’s note reads as follows: “[Bruxelles: Gay & Douce 1875] Enfer 29; BM. PC. 1769. 1st ed. as : Le Panier aux ordures, par Armand Gouffe et autres. [Paris – London: John Camden Hotten, for Lord Houghton, 1865.]. 36 f., lg 8vo. Hand-drawn facsimile by H.J. Bellars, erotic drawings by Ulm. No copy.* 2nd ed. (first typographical): [title as here,] [Libreville, a a la Society pour la propagation des livres de l’Enfer’ [Bruxelles: Jules Gay], 1866. vi, 154 p. smal 8vo. (106 copies.) BM.PC. 31 g. 4; Coll. G.L. 1957 G. Legman.” The asterisk from above reads, at bottom of page, “except that of Pierre Louys, coll. Bottin, Nice, in 1962].” Laid in also is a folded piece of typescript from Legman noting “SOLD to RP02/2016” (that is, Richard Press, from his widow) and then the explanation of the woodcut engraving at title page, “probably by Gilbert,” “showing a priest kneeling before a woman holding up her skirts before a kitchen fireplace to show her cunt.” 151 pp. And with occasional pencil marginalia translations into English (mostly of titles).
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Chansons Folles
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Gustave Nadaud]
Evreux: Charles Herissey, 1887.Collection of 41 erotic songs with musical score by Gustave Nadaud and published anonymously with a fine frontispiece engraving by Henry Somm. One of 75 numbered copies on Japon (of a total edition of 300). This copy with a two-page signed letter by the author in purple ink dated 29 Avril 1882, written on nice stationery that features the letterhead Rue Charles Laffitte, 63, Neuilly, (Seine); and a two-page song composed on the same stationery in the same purple ink.
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Orgies Demoniaques: Orgies a bord d’un yacht
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGuy d’ Echara
: Collection des Lits Clos, No date.1950s Eric Losfeld clandestine publication of [Demonic Orgies on a Yacht], with the 6 plates in sepia depicting group sex scenes. DUTEL 2121.
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Gisele et Pierrette ou Les Esclaves d’Island Castle
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Starbine
Paris: Libraire Artistique et Edition Parisienne Reunies, 1932.French 1930s sadomasochist novel. With illustrations by Gaston Smit, signed in the images as G. Topfer.
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Flagellees: La Flagellation des Femmes dans la Rome Antique
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean de Virgans
Paris: Librairie Franco-Anglaise, 1922.1920s French flagellation novel with illustrations by Gaston Smit signed in the image as both G. Smit and G. Topfer.
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Confidences Egarees
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLiane Laure [Liane de Lauris]
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, 1932.1930s French flagellation. Jean Fort publication under his sadomasochistic imprint Collection des Orties Blanches. Illustrated with 16 plates by Dagy [Daniel Girard], this copy with 5 of the plates hand-coloured.
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Les Amies de Lady Chattieley
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges de Chanrosey [Chanrosay]
Paris: Librairie des Editions Modernes, No date.1930s French flagellation and sadomasochistic novel with the title recalling D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Illustrated with 12 black and white plates by W. Floger [Edouard Bernard / Edward Alexander Bernard].
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Flore Medicale, Decrite par F. O.
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartF. P. Chaumeton
Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1814-1820.Monumental early nineteenth-century French work on medicinal and edible plants, authored by Francois Pierre Chaumeton, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, and Jean-Baptitse-Joseph-Anne-Cesar Turbas de Chamberet. The first six volumes, beginning with Absinthe comprise 360 hand-coloured stipple engravings by Ernestine Panckoucke (the publisher’s wife) and Pierre-Jean-Francois Turpin, produced at the height of the French stipple engraving tradition pioneered by Pierre-Joseph Redoute, a fantastic example of early nineteenth-century botanical art publishing. The final two volumes complete the work with extensive text on pharmacological uses and additional plates, including two large engraved folding tables, forming a comprehensive encyclopaedia of materia medica as understood at the end of the Napoleonic era. NISSEN BBI 349. This copy with the additional corrected description of plate XXI. From the collection of English horticulturalist, Maria Theresa Earle, with her bookplate in each volume, also the plate, name and address of American Rhododendron collector Dr. Paul Jay Bowman. This edition unrecorded in Australian collections, with only one institutional holding of any edition located, the 6-volume second edition (1828-1833) at the University of Melbourne.
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L’Art a Hue Nouvelle Edition
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartl’Association des Amis du Vieux Hue
Hanoi: Imprimerie d’Extreme-Orient, No date.A separately issued volume associated with the Bulletin des Amis du Vieux Hue and a classic of Vietnamese motifs, art, and architecture. The Association des Amis du Vieux Hue was a French colonial-era scholarly society based in Hue, the Bulletin was issued 1914-1944, this special issue circa 1925.
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La Sculpture Negre Primitive
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul-Guillaume; T. Munro
Paris: Les Editions, G. Cres & Cie, 1929.Rebound in black cloth with the original wrappers. Bookplates of Marshall Laird and Philip Goldman with pencil annotation to half-title identifying it as Collier Garland’s copy.
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Art Bakongo: Les Centres de Style
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaoul Lehuard
Arnouville: Arts d’Afrique Noire, 1989. -
Julie, ou J’ai Sauve ma Rose. Par Madame de C***.
AU$3,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Felicite de Choiseul-Meuse?]; [Madame Guyot?]
A Hambourg, et se Trouve a Paris: Chez les Marchands de Nouveautes, 1807.Possibly the first sapphic novel written by a woman, over a century before Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. The vivid depiction of lesbian love lends to the warning on the title page, “La mere en defendra la lecture a sa fille” [The mother will forbid her daughter to read it], and led to the novel’s censure in 1825 and on the ruling of obscenity and its order of destruction in 1827. First published in 1807, this is a well survived example of the second edition, differing from the first with the French spelling modernized, published in 1820 or 1821 but with the same 1807 imprint of the first edition. Sometimes attributed to Felicite de Choiseul-Meuse, and also to Madame Guyot, both have been refuted. PERCEAU 6-2, PIA pp. 662-3, GAY Vol. IV pp. 196.
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Les Mains Cheries
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques d’Icy; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.1930s flagellation tales authored by the renowned illustrator of spanking, Louis Malteste, under his Jacques d’Icy pseudonym.