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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 aristocratic 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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Pioneering: The Life of the Hon. R. M. Collins
Harry C. Perry
Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1923.With a poetic epigraph by Queensland poet George Essex Evans.
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Dreams
H. Tasman Lovell
Sydney: The Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, 1923.The Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy Monograph Series No. II. This copy with the ownership stamp of K. Thompson Matthews, interleaved with numerous blanks, copiously underlined and with some marginalia.
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The Story of the Development of a Youth
Ernst Haeckel
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1923.Letters to his Parents, 1852-1856. Translated by G. Barry Gifford.
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Contraception (Birth Control): Its Theory, History and Practice
Marie Carmichael Stopes
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1923.A Manual for the Medical and Legal Professions. With an introduction by William Bayliss and introductory notes by James Barr, C. Rolleston, Jane Hawthorne and Obscurus. Third printing of the pioneering work on the subject by the seminal figure of the English birth control movement, Marie Stopes (1880-1958).