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Ah! Nana (Complete Set, 9 Issues)
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJanic Guillerez; Marjorie Alessandrini; Anne Delobel; et al.
Paris: Les Humanoides Associes, 1976-1978.Complete set of the French women’s comic magazine Ah ! Nana which evolved out of and was published by the comic book publishing house of Moebius (Jean Giraud), Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and Bernard Farkas, Les Humanoides Associes. During a staff lunch of their magazine Metal Hurlant (the original of the English adaptation Heavy Metal), Jean-Pierre suggested to the women present (including his wife Janic Guillerez who became chief editor of Ah! Nana) to create a women’s magazine and feminist newspaper. Ah!Nana ran for nine issues, each with its own theme, coming to a short end following the magazine being banned to minors after the publication of the eighth issue devoted to homosexuality. This led the editorial team to go all in on the ninth and final issue, devoting it to incest, leading to the French censorship Commission banning the publication, labelling it pornographic.
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Ecole Pratique des Accouchemens.
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. B. Jacobs
A Gand: Chez J. F. Vander Scheuren, 1785.First French translation of the important Dutch obstetrics manual by Jan Bernard Jacobs (1734-1790). At the time of its appearance, it was one of the most complete treatises on the art of childbirth and remained a standard work into the middle of the nineteenth century being described as a pearl of scientific production from the last years before the French Revolution.
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Expedition Antarctique Belge. Au Pays des Manchots: Recit du Voyage de la Belgica
AU$1,800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges Lecointe
Bruxelles: Societe Belge de Libraire, 1904.Account of the captain of the RV Belgica, the second in command of the first Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899. Considered the first expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, it was the first expedition to spend the entire winter in the region. Trapped in the ice for a year, they were ill prepared, the polar night driving a number of the crew mad and with scurvy setting in they were forced to subsist on penguin (largely considered inedible). Despite the challenges much scientific data was gathered including around 700 rock samples, for the first time meteorological observations were recorded for a full Antarctic year, and 188 new animal species were discovered. This superlative copy bound in full vellum with leather labels and decorative endpapers, and with a bound in manuscript letter dated 26 July 1904 from Lecointe to Madame Van Halteren requesting her to give the book to her daughter, Miss Van Halteren, signed by Lecointe, also with his monogram stamp and the stamp of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.
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Les Amies. Sonnets
Read MorePaul Verlaine; Jean-Gabriel Daragnes
Bayonne: aux depens d’un groupe d’amateurs a l’enseigne de la Guirlande, 1919.Verlaine’s lesbian themed sonnets accompanied by 6 full page illustrations and tail pieces by Jean-Gabriel Daragnes. Produced in an edition of 280 numbered copies of which this is one of 250 standard with the plates in colour on arches vellum paper.
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Dresseuse et… Dressee
Read MoreAndre Vergereau; [Umberto Brunelleschi]
Paris: Aux Editions Prima, 1939.French flagellation novel with 12 plates by d’Ernest Mosse, a pseudonym for Italian illustrator Umberto Brunelleschi who had been residing in Paris since 1900 and among his works designed numerous costumes for Josephine Baker.
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Les Dimanches de la Comtesse de Narbonne
Read MoreDaisy Fellowes; Vertes
Paris: Editions de France, 1935.Novel of Parisian high society in the early 20th century by the French socialite Daisy Fellowes, Paris editor of American Harper’s Bazaar and heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Illustrated by Marcel Vertes. Neatly rebound in half leather and wood preserving the original pink wrappers.
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Les Freres Zemganno
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Auguste Brouet
Paris: Edite par F. Gregoire, 1921.Goncourt’s Naturalist exploration of the evolution of French literature through the acrobatic artistry of two circus brothers, also echoing and exploring his own love and loss of his inseparable brother (and literary partner) who passed some years prior. Originally published in 1879, here for the first time with numerous illustrations by Auguste Brouet. The illustrations include 15 full page etchings, a half-page etching on the half-title, and a vignette on the title, all signed in the plate, together with a further 51 illustrations in the text. This copy extra illustrated with 4 original signed drawings by Brouet mounted at the beginning, and finely bound in a signed full leather binding by Ganape, RD, dated 1925, and with the bookplates of Yvan Lamberty and B. Le Dosseur.
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Les Champignons Comestibles et les especes veneneuses avec lesquelles ils pourraient etre confundus
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLouis Favre-Guillarmod
Paris: Librairie Agricole, [1869].Edible and poisonous mushrooms in the Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland. The first complete edition with the 2 parts in 1 volume. The first part being a reprint of the 1861 edition, Les champignons comestibles du canton de Neuchatel, the second with a new introduction and further invaluable information on the edibility of mushrooms VOLBRACHT 586. This copy with the mycological bookplate of Jacques and Helene Bon.
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Le Condamne a Mort
Read MoreJean Genet
Fresnes: , 1942.First edition, first printing, of Genet’s first publication. Written while in prison for book theft and privately printed in 1942, Le Condamne a Mort [The Man Sentenced to Death], is a hallucinatory homoerotic homage to another prisoner, Maurice Pilorge, a beautiful young man guillotined for murder in 1939. Appearing in white and pink wrapper variants without priority, this copy in white, and containing numerous manuscript corrections by the author.
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Petites Miettes Amoureuses
Read MorePierre Louys
Rheims: Presses de L’Imprimerie Particuliere du Palais du Tau, 1976.Previously unpublished erotic French poetry by Pierre Louys from the collection of M. Gerard Nordmann with a quality reproduction of an erotic photograph by Louys as a frontispiece to the first volume, Poems Libres. The second volume, Deux Contes, all manuscript facsimile. Limited to 175 numbered copies, this copy without the accompanying box of postcards.
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Peches Roses (4 Volumes, I-IV)
Read MoreCharles Aubert
Paris: Chez Tous Les Libraires, 1884.The first 4 short erotic and love stories by Charles Aubert published under the Peches Roses title in the original illustrated wrappers with a nude woman revealed by a cherub. Each with an engraved frontispiece by Jules-Armand Hanriot signed Jul. Hanriot, also title vingette and an illustrated headpiece. Full list of titles: I. Le Sabbat; II. Les Scelles; III. Le Premier Voyage; IV. Le Chien Volant.
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Dictionnaire Universel Francois et Latin, Vulgairement Appele Dictionnaire de Trevoux (8 Volumes)
AU$4,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
Paris: Compagnie des Libraires Associes, 1771.The final and most comprehensive edition of the Dictionnaire de Trevoux, so nicknamed because of its original publication in the town of Trevoux. The original 1704 edition, assumed to be directed by the Jesuits, was largely derived from the 1701 edition of Antoine Furetiere’s 1690 Dictionnaire universel. From the much expanded second edition it became widely used and was a major inspiration for Ephraim Chamber’s 1728 Cyclopaedia and the 1751-72 Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers.
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L’Art de Jouir ou Traite Pratique des Caresses Voluptueuses. Recettes & Formules sur les Aphrodisiauqes et Philtres d’ Amour
Read More[Pierrot / Doctor Brennus / Roland Brevannes?]
[Paris]: [Andre Hal], No date.The Art of Enjoyment or Practical Treatise on Voluptuous Caresses, Capable of Procuring the Most Delicious, the Most Exciting, the Most Disturbing, the Most Irresistible Sensations. Recipes & Formulas on Aphrodisiacs and Love Potions. “This little treatise is a veritable vade mecum for the apprentice in love. It indicates precisely the physical and moral means which must be implemented to conquer the woman. The second part of the work dealing with lovemaking around the world including commentary on Asian and African practices. PERCEAU 275, DUTEL 56. Dutel stating circa 1902, Perceau 1908, a small name on the half-title of this copy followed by 1905. Both Perceau and Dutel attributing authorship to Pierrot, pseudonym of Roland Brevannes, who usually signed his works on sexuality Doctor Brennus, this based on the identical type used by the publisher. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC. This copy with 70 pages, separately paginated (pp. 105-174, [1]), of a clandestine catalogue of erotica and sexuality materials bound at the rear.
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E’tude Medico-Legale et Clinique sur L’Empoisonnement
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmbroise Tardieu; Z. Roussin
Paris: Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1875.Medico-Legal and Clinical Study on Poisoning.
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Les Enfants De Jean Bart: Carnaval, Chansons et Parler Dunkerquois
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Denise
Dunkirk: Westhoeck-Editions, 1978.Musical score by composer Jean Denise. Includes introduction by Christian Bommel and contributions by Serge Blanckaert, Jean Chatroussat, Michal Heyden, Roch Vandromme, Jean Wispelaere, and David Riefenstahl.
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Bibliotheque Carlo de Poortere: Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Rodenbach
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarlo de Poortere
Liege: Vaillant – Carmanne, 1985.Carlo de Poortere (1917 – 2002), son of Belgian carpet manufacturer Louis de Poortere and later co-manager of the family business, was a bibliophile and collector. His library included fine 17th and 18th century bindings, and other works from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. He also collected manuscripts and memorabilia, and it is those that this book documents, by Emile Verhaeren (Belgian Symbolist author, 1855 – 1916, Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian poet and playwright, 1862 – 1949), and Georges Rodenbach (Belgian Symbolist writer and poet, 1855 – 1898). Produced in a limited edition of 350 copies, numbers 1 – 50 printed on Deluxe watermarked Ingres Van Gelder paper; this being one of the deluxe edition, being number 36.
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Cryptogamie Illustree ou Histoire des Familles Naturelles des Plantes Acotyledones d’Europe: Famille des Champignons
AU$480.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCasimir Roumeguere
Paris, London, Madrid & New York: J. -B. Baillere & Fils, F. Savy, H. Baillere, C. Bailly-Baillere, and Baillere-Brothers, 1870.Illustrated Cryptogamy or History of the Natural Families of the Acotyledonous Plants of Europe: Coordinated According to the Latest Classifications and Completed by the Most Recent Scientific Researches. Fungi Family. Containing 1,700 figures, representing, at its different ages, the plant in natural size and the anatomy of its organs of vegetation and reproduction, drawn under the microscope. 20 page Index Synonymqie de la famille des Champignons supplement dated 1873 bound in at rear.
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Les Associations Fongiques des Hauts-Marais Jurassiens et de Quelques Regions Voisines
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJules Favre
Liestal: Druck Ludin, 1960.The Fungal Associations of the Hauts-Marais Jurassiens and some neighboring regions. Volume X, Fasciule 3 of Materiaux pour la Flore Cryptogamique Suisse.
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Hit-Parade des Champignons: Champignons Sauvages, Champignons & Nature
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSerge Hureaux
Paris: Iris, 1974.French guide to wild mushrooms.
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Miserable Miracle (La Mescaline)
AU$1,000.00 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.