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Homonopolis: The Most Gayotic Game
Stef de Knegt; Alexander M. Kroner
Amsterdam: Studio Fab / Identity Games International, 1994.Dutch Gay Monopoloy adaptation. Differing form the American Gay Monopoly published in 1983 (and much better rated according to Board Game Geek). In Homonopolis players travel around a triangular board cruising the gay bars and venues of Amsterdam. Instead of building houses and hotels players purchase barkeepers and backrooms. Jail is replaced with an SM Cellar where instead of Just Visiting you are Just Peeping Through the Glory Holes. Everything you might expect . The rulebook and the board are bilingual in Dutch and English. At 138 pages the book goes well beyond explaining the game, delving into the gay history of the Netherlands as well as an extensive directory of services, illustrated throughout by photographs of gay Amsterdam in the 1990s and with advertisements for a colourful assortment of local gay businesses that sponsored the production of the game.
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Salvinorin: The Psychedelic Essence of Salvia Divinorum
D. M. Turner
San Francisco: Panther Press, 1996.Rare psychedelic study of Salvia divinorum and the active compound Salvinorin A. Includes first-hand accounts by the author.
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The Essential Psychedelic Guide
D. M. Turner
San Francisco: Panther Press, 1994.A detailed, and very drug nerdy, guide to psychedelic experimentation. An experiential view on many of the classical psychoactive substances.
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Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy
Grillot de Givry; J. Courtenay Locke
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1931.A collection of the iconography of occultism, presenting with full explanations a large number of pictures selected from the most curious, characteristic, and rare illustrations to works on sorcery, magic, astrology, cheiromancy, cartomancy, alchemy, etc. including works in manuscript and incunabula form. Translated from the French of Emile-Jules Grillot de Givry by J. Courtenay Locke.
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Orange Blossoms. The Story of A Beautiful Marchioness under the Second Empire
Anonymous
Paris: Privately Printed [Charles Carrington], 1903.English translation published by Carrington of, Souvenirs d’une Cocodette, first published in full clandestinely by Jules Gay in Brussels. Edition of 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered on thin wove paper in plain brown wrappers, as suggested by Mendes in Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930, Carrington likely ran additional copies beyond the 200 on this thinner paper. MENDES 154(b)(iii).
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Oeuvres Libres
Paul Verlaine
Segovie: Pablo de Herlagnez, 1868 [c. 1930].Clandestine 20th century anthology of Verlaine’s Amies, Femmes, Hombres (except the last 4 quatrains of Balanide I), and Sonnet du trou du cul [Sonnet to an Asshole] by Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. With erotic chapter initials and accompanied by 6 erotic etchings by an anonymous artist. Edition of 400 copies, though often found without the suite of plates, here the plates are on thick Holland laid paper and not vellum as described in PIA 1440, DUTEL 2092.
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Mon Dieu, Quelle Chose Enorme!
Bernard Montorgueil
: Bernard Montorgueil, No date.Original femdom drawing by mysterious fetish artist Bernard Montorgueil. Montorgueil produced a number of French erotic works in the 1920s and 1930s which became very popular with the BDSM community through the latter half of the 20th century with a number of reprints of Montorgueil’s manuscripts published. This is an original drawing in pencil with colour highlights showing two women dominating a sissified male in a bathroom, with an additional glory hole tease. With mounted typescript captions: Mon Dieu, Quelle Chose Enorme! Regarde ce que j’ai pour ta jeune mariee / [My God, What a Huge Thing! Look what I have for your bride!] and signed by the artist in the bottom right corner.
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Margo St. James Presents the 5th Annual Hooker’s Masquerade Ball
Robert Gotsch
San Francisco: Tea Lautrec, 1978.Original poster for Margo St. James’ annual fundraiser for COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), an American sex workers’ rights organization founded by James in 1973.
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Condoman Says: Don’t Be Shame Be Game. Use Condoms!
Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland)
Queensland: Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia, No date.Early/mid 1990s issue of the iconic Aboriginal HIV/AIDS awareness campaign poster (the earliest issues captioned USE FRENCHIES! instead of condoms). Originally conceived in 1987 by Aunty Gracelyn Smallwood and a small team of Aboriginal health workers in Townsville, Queensland, Condoman became one of the most successful Australian sexual health campaigns.
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Cocktails: How to Mix Them
Robert Vermiere
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922.First printing of one of the classic 20th century cocktail books by one of London’s leading bartenders of the 1920s. Credited on the title page to Robert of The Embassy Club, Belgian Robert Vermeire (1891-1976) worked a number of London’s most prestigious establishments. Containing 16 pages of illustrated advertisements at the rear, the first of which being Vermiere offering his services to would be professional bartenders, hoteliers, and amateur mixers as a consultant by appointment at his London office at “moderate terms”, though right on the publication of this book he returned to Belgium and opened his own bar, Robert’s. The beverages in Cocktails: How to Mix Them, being not only cocktails, but also cobblers, coolers, crustas, egg nogs, fizzes, flips, frappes, highballs, juleps, pousse cafes, punches, rickeys, sangarees, slings, smashes, sours, toddies, and even a short section of useful medicinal prescriptions, have stood the test of time, with countless reprints and facsimiles. Vermeire provides nuanced insight into the ritzy drinking culture of the day, not only outlining ingredients and methods, but also touching on the origins of the drinks, stating the creator where known, and outlining what drinks were well known and well received where and by whom.
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The Savoy Cocktail Book
Harry Craddock
London: Constable & Company, 1930.First edition, second issue (with the Booth’s adverts), of the classic cocktail book. Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daises, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and vastly appreciated in this year of grace 1930, with sundry notes of amusement and interest concerning them, together with subtle Observations upon Wines and their special occasions. Being in the particular an elucidation of the Manners and Customs of people of quality in a period of some equality. Illustrated by Gilbert Rumbold.
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Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of Large Extent
John Parkinson
London: Tho. Cotes, 1640.Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange Plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry Gummes and other Physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; And a most large demonstration of their Natures and Venues. Shewing withall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry Authors that have formerly written of them; and a certaine confidence, or most probable conjecture of the true and genuines Herbes and Plants. Distributes into sundry Classes or Tribes. The monumental work of herbal medicine by the English herbalist and botanist John Parkinson (1567-1650) in which over 3,800 plants are described and illustrated by approximately 2,600 woodcut illustrations. Theatrum Botanicum was a standard reference for apothecaries for over a century after it was published.
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A Series Of Progressive Lessons, Intended to Elucidate the Art of Landscape Painting in Water Colours
[David Cox]
London: T. Clay, 1816. -
Groups of Fruit, Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, with Full Directions for the Young Artist: Designed as a Companion to the Treatises on Flowers and Birds.
George Brookshaw
London: For William Stockdale by Augustus Applegath and Henry Mitton, 1817.The rare first edition of the second part of the three part treatise on natural history painting by the English artist and author of Pomono Britannica, George Brookshaw (c.1751-1823). Each plate: Apples, Apricots, Cherries, Currants, Pears, Plums; is presented in two states, un-coloured and with hand-colouring, and each is accompanied by 1 or 2 pages of instructive text. This copy complete, but with the plates bound in alphabetical order, rather than the order of the instructive text.
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Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria
Arthur Adams
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870. -
An English Translation of the Satyarth Prakash
Durga Prasad
Lahore: Virjanand Prss, 1908.Literally: Expose of Right Sense (of Vedic Religion). Of Maharrshi Swami Dayanand Saraswati, The Luther of India, Being A Guide to Vedic Hermeneutics. The first printing of the second translation into English following the 1906 translation of Chiranjiva Bharadwaja of The Light of Truth first published in Hindi in 1875 and revised in 1882.
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Commentarius Historico-Politicus de Rebus Turcicis
Johann Heinrich Boecler
Budissae [Bautzen]: Davidis Richteri, 1717.[A Historical-Political Commentary on Turkish Affairs. Now First Published from Manuscript, Together with a Preface and Summaries, Together with a Most Instructed Library of Turkish Writers, N. C. J.]
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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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Ist der Ofen noch so klein, muss er doch…gereinigt sein
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of three drawings in pencil, ink, and coloured crayon on a single folded sheet, depicting a woman and a chimney sweep, with manuscript text in German: [No matter how small the oven is, it still needs to be…cleaned].