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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Les Sept Femmes de La Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux
Anatole France; G. A. Mossa
Paris: Librairie Des Amaterus, A. Ferroud. – F. Ferroud, 1921.Bluebeard’s Seven Wives and Other Wonderful Tales. France’s reinterpretation of the French folktale of Bluebeard. First published in 1909, this is the first edition with illustrations by Gustav-Adolf Mossa. One of 70 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states (from a total edition of 1,200). This copy from the collection of Australian actor and bibliophile Barry Humphries, with his bookplate, in a fine signed binding by Flammarion bookbinder Jean Vaillant.
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Ars Amandi. L’Art D’Aimer
Ovide; 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
Honore de Balzac; Almery Lobel-Riche
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Girl with the Golden Eyes. An aristocractic 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 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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La Femme et le Pantin
Pierre Louys; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: Le Vasseur et Cie, Editeaurs, 1945.The Woman and the Puppet. A Frenchman falls hopelessly under the spell of a beguiling Andalusian woman at the carnival in Seville, drawing him into a cruel dance of seduction, humiliation, and obsession. First published in 1898, this the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat. This copy number 110 of 400 numbered copies on Arches vellum (of a total edition of 540), though with the plates in a second state with remarques normally reserved for the 75 copies numbered 26 to 100.
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Le Diable au Corps
Raymond Radiguet; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: Editions Georges Gullot, 1957.The Devil in the Flesh. The story of a young married woman’s affair with a teenage boy while her husband is away fighting in WWI. First published in 1923, this is the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat, and with an introduction by Jean Cocteau. The superlative issue, one of 16 numbered copies on Japanese paper with an original signed drawing in pencil and white gouache, with the composition then hand coloured and signed by Becat, the 16 illustrations by Becat hand coloured by Jean and Paulette Monnier, followed by a suite containing the illustrations in black in two states, on Japanese paper and Rives vellum.
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Le Diable Amoureux
Jacques Cazotte; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: La Tradition, 1936.The Devil in Love. Occult romance first published in 1772. This the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat. One of 450 numbered copies on Arches vellum (of a total edition of 500).
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Histoire d’Amour de la Rose de Sable
Henry de Montherlant; Edouard Chimot
Paris: Editions des Deux-Rives, 1951.French novel critical of colonisation in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa. This edition with erotic illustrations by Chimot. One of 900 numbered copies on Rives vellum.
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Les Ragionamenti (2 Volumes)
L’Aretin; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: Editions de la Nef d’Argent, 1944.Also called Sei Giornate, a 20th century French translation of 16th century Italian poet, Pietro Aretino’s pair of Renaissance dialogues is illustrated with hand embellished lithograph nudes and small drawings by Paul-Emile Becat. One of 2,800 numbered copies on pure rag vellum (of a total edition of 3,000).
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Le Parfum des Iles Borromees
Rene Boylesve; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: L’Editions D’Art H. Piazza, 1933.French novel of passionate vacationers on the shores of Lake Maggiore. The first edition with 26 illustrations by Becat. Edition of 450 copies, this copy on vellum numbered IV (outside of the justification) with a printed subscriber’s name scratched out.
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La Fille Elisa
Edmond de Goncourt; Paul-Louis Guilbert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, George Briffaut, 1929.Goncourt’s prostitute-prisoner novel, here published for the first time with original drypoints by Paul-Louis Guilbert, a preface by J. -H. Rosny Aine, and an afterword by Jean Ajalbert. Edition of 425 numbered copies, this copy on Arches vellum, unnumbered but inscribed by the publisher, likely to the Belgian publisher Albert Parmentier of Les Editions du Nord.
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Les Ames du Purgatoire
Prosper Merimee; Lucien Guezennec
Paris: Pierre Larrive, 1947.The Souls of Purgatory, short story retelling of the myth of Don Juan, the first edition with 10 engravings by Lucien Guezennec and woodcut ornaments by Dan Sigros. One of a numbered edition of 500 copies on Lafuma (of a total edition of 611).
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La Mort de Philae
Pierre Loti; Geo Colucci
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1924.The Death of Philae (English title: Egypt), a tale set around the submerging of the island of Philae with the construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the river Nile. The first edition with illustrations by Geo Colucci. One of 460 numbered copies on vellum (of a total edition of 500), in a fine half leather binding signed Ch. De Samblax with the original wrappers bound in.
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Les Civilises
Claude 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.