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L’Ecrin du Rubis ou Les Delices des Dessous
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLiane de Lauris
Paris: Au Cabinet du Livre [Jean Fort], 1932.Rare French lesbian erotica. The first edition with 16 illustrations and colour illustrated wrappers by P. Silex, and with the limitation statement of 6 numbered copies, numbered by the printer, of which this copy is numbered IV.
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Seduction: Jeunes Amours au Chateau, a la Pension
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierrot
: En Vente Partout et Nulle Part, 1910.The first clandestine printing with the limitation of 300 copies on the verso of the half-title by the Briffaut brothers following the original edition circa 1908 titled Une Seduction and expanded with four additional texts of poetry and plays after the first. This copy unnumbered on Alfa as often and with the bookplate of the Membre de la Guide du Livre. DUTEL 787. PERCEAU 274-2, PIA 1366.
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Les Delices Libertines
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacqueline de Lansay [Johannes Gros]
Moncontour: Au Bonheur des Dames, No date.French clandestine erotica printed by Maurice Duflou circa 1935 with 14 erotic plates depicting numerous lesbian and group scenes. The first issue of 400 numbered copies, of which this is number 84. DUTEL 1358, PIA 311.
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. The first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer. This copy unopened in the original wrappers.
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Champignons et Plantes Medicinales (Therapeutique par les Plantes): Petit Guide a l’usage des familles
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Riguet; G. D’Hommee
Paris: Librairie Grund, 1943.Mushrooms and Medicinal Plants (Plant Therapy): A Short Guide for Families.
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Les Champignons Comestibles & Veneneux
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. de La Rocque
Paris: Nodot Editeur, No date.Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: General Notions. Classification. Study of Characteristics.
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Description de Deux Nouvelles Especes de Ptychogaster et nouvelle preuve de l’identite de ce genre avec les Polyporus
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. Boudier
Paris: J. Mersch, 1887.Description of Two New Species of Ptychogaster and New Evidence for the Identity of This Genus with Polyporus. Extract from the Journal de Botanique 15 February, 1887. This copy inscribed by Boudier.
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Opium: Journal d’une Desintoxication
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Cocteau
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1930.An unnumbered copy of the first edition on paper.
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Leurs Pantalons: Comment elles les portent
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Mauvain
Paris: Jean Fort, 1923.A volume devoted to women’s pants and how they wear them. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and a colour cover illustration by the French illustrator of La Vie Parisienne fame Cheri Herouard, showing risqué portraits of women in varying circumstances revealing their undergarments. Though the title page states this is a new edition completely revised and augmented with many interviews, this 1923 printing is the first recorded printing we are aware of, with two reprints following in 1924 and 1927.
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Mademoiselle Javotte, ouvrage peu moral, ecrit par elle-meme, et publie par une de ses amies
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Paul Baret]
[Paris]: A Bicetre, 1788.Mademoiselle Javotte, a work of little morality, written by herself, and published by one of her friends. An anonymous tale (often attributed to Paul Baret / Paul Barrett) in which the heroine engages in sex work to escape poverty. A racy reworking of a closely titled 1757 moral work, whereas this one has little. This copy illustrated with 2 erotic etchings.
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Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1770.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes. Avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women. With Historical and Justificatory Notes]. Second Edition of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits. This copy in a likely 20th century rebind in quarter leather with new endpapers, and extra-illustrated with one erotic illustration bound in at page 16.
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Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1769.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes: avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women: with Historical and Justificatory Notes]. First edition, second issue (with an updated title page removing reference to the Paris printer Delalain) of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits.
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Dictionnaire Botanique et Pharmaceutique,
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Alexandre]
Paris: Du Fonds de la Veuve Leconte, 1759.Botanical and Pharmaceutical Dictionary containing the Principal Properties of Minerals, Plants, and Animals of use with the most used internal and external Pharmacy Preparations in Medicine, & in Surgery. All taken from the best Authors, especially the Moderns. Useful work for young Pharmacists & Surgeons, Hospitals, Communities, & charitable People who dress the Poor. Mid-eighteenth century edition of the portable medical dictionary attributed to the Benedictine Nicolas Alexandre (1654-1728). 24 editions appeared from 1716 to 1846.
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Dictionnaire Portatif de Cuisine, d’Office, et de Distillation;
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Paris: Chez Vincent, 1767.Portable dictionary of cooking, office, and distillation: containing the manner of preparing all kinds of meats, veal, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, etc.: the manner of making all kinds of jellies, pastes .. : and of composing all kinds of liqueurs .. : work equally useful to the most skilled office and kitchen chefs .. : medical observations have been added which make known the property of each food, relative to health, and which indicate the foods most suitable for each temparment.
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Reportage No 38: Numero Exceptionnel: Homme-Femme, Hermaphrodite ou Travestis
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Jacquet
Paris: Reportage, 1968.Special issue of the French magazine Reportage on intersex, transsexuality, and crossdressing.
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Rues et Visages de New-York
AU$2,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChas Laborde; Paul Morand
Paris: Lacouriere, 1950.Streets and Faces of New York. The final, and posthumous, of Charles Laborde’s series of works on famous world cities, having previously produced similar volumes on Paris (1926), London (1928), Berlin (1930), and Moscow (1935). The New York volume produced from sketchbooks he made on his trip in 1932, containing 15 accompanied by text by Paul Morand. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches from a total edition of 230.
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La Ballade de la Geole de Reading
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde; G. Cornelius
Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927.French edition of Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol illustrated with 15 coloured copper engravings by Jean-Georges Cornelius. One of 225 numbered copies.
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Cahier de Chansons Appartenant a Monsieur Varcourt, Sapeur-Pompier. 24. rue de Poissy
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEmilien Varcourt
Paris: Emilien Varcourt, 1903-1906.A manuscript notebook composed by a volunteer firefighter, Emilien Varcourt, with a Paris regiment between 1903 and 1906. Over 100 songs, romances, monologues, lullabies, etc, are recorded, both transcribed and original. The text is illustrated throughout with original drawings, many signed, and lightly erotic. A fantastic Parisian manuscript illuminating romance and sexuality at the beginnings of the 20th century.
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Nous Deux: Illustre de seize pointes-seches originales [Nelly et Jean]
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Gaston de Sainte Croix]; [Marcel Valotaire]
[Paris]: Editions du Cyclmen, 1956.The second edition of the story by Marcel Valotaire telling of the sexual awakening of a young female student, Nelly, mostly in the hands of her Latin tutor, Jean. This edition, probably published by Vialetay, with 16 drypoint etchings by Gaston de Sainte Croix printed by Georges Viglino. One of 168 numbered copies on Rives, from a total edition of 200. DUTEL 2055.
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Nelly et Jean, Nous Deux, simples papiers du tiroir secret
AU$3,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Jean Dulac]; [Marcel Valotaire]
[Paris]: Grave et imprime pour les auteurs et leurs amis, [1929].First edition, first printing of one of the masterpieces of early 20th century erotica, noted as being the most expensive clandestine publication of the time with 46 finely printed and hand coloured illustrations by Jean Dulac. The story by Marcel Valotaire tells of the sexual awakening of a young female student, Nelly, mostly in the hands of her Latin tutor, Jean. One of 240 numbered copies on Arches (from a total edition of 295). The 2 volumes here bound as one in a fine three quarter leather binding retaining the two original illustrated wrapper panels. DUTEL 2054.