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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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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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[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].
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Ein Spaziergang
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of drawings in pencil and coloured crayon on thin tracing paper mounted on sheets depicting a heterosexual couple entering a hotel for sex and being watched by a masturbating clerk through the keyhole. 14 sheets, each with mounted manuscript captions in German, and an illustrated title leaf mounted to the front pastedown.
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[Illustrated Story of a Couple Having Sex]
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of 16 erotic drawings in black ink and coloured crayon on thin tracing paper depicting a heterosexual couple having sex. The final leaf with the text (signed?) Kray.
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Photographic Views of Cheltenham and Its Neighbourhood
Francis Bedford
Chester: Catherall & Prichard, No date.Unrecorded view album produced from the prolific series of stereographs of England and Wales by one of England’s leading 19th century photographers. Bedford helped to found the Royal Photographic Society and received numerous royal commissions. This copy with 5 additional Bedford albumens of the same or larger size mounted on interleaves. The issued photographs are: 747. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, Looking Up.; 749. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, The Central Avenue; 750. Cheltenham, The Promenande Drive, The Side Avenue; 751. Cheltenham, The Queen’s Hotel; 753. Cheltenham, St. Mary’s (The Parish) Church; 754. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Principal Front; 755. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Chapel; 756. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Interior of the Chapel; 757. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Gymnasium; 758. Cheltenham, The High Street; 759. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa and Lake; 760. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa, The Pump Room; 761. The Devil’s Chimney, Leckhampton; 744. Tewkesbury Abbey, From the West; 746. Twekesbury Abbey, Interior of the Choir, Looking West; 743. Twekesbury, High Street and Old Houses. The additional photographs are captioned in manuscript: 757. Plough Hotel; 2350. Winter Gardens; 748. Promenade; 2378; 2346.
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Furniture by Harris, Scarfe Limited
Harris, Scarfe Limited
Adelaide: Thornquest Press, No date.1930s illustrated furniture catalogue by the Australian retailer founded in Adelaide in 1849 and still operating today.
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Exotique Illustrated Vol. 1 No. 1
[Reuben Sturman]
[Cleveland]: WWNC, No date.1960s fetish magazine produced by Reuben Sturman’s World Wide News Corp, though the content likely largely derived from Leonard Burtman, and the influence of John Willie’s Bizarre still ever present. Bettie Page pops up, but the main content is a host of other corseted and rubberized models in short series photographed by Lou Green, Len Barton, and Paul Wagner, alongside artwork by fetish artists Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew, including an extract of Staton’s comic story, Deborah, as well as a short text on the attraction of hair by Carlson Wade.
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The Corset Fetish Vol. 1 No. 1
Candy Lane
Nottingham: Candy Lane, No date.Dedicated to Fashions, Fads, Fancies and Fetishes. Largely full page black and white photographs of women in corsets accompanied by several John Willie illustrations. Text is mostly the story, The Thrill of Corsets, by H. T. Lowe, together with a couple of short introductory remarks on corset and fetish appreciation.
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The Boy Who Became a Girl
Anoymous
New York: Lee’s Mardi Gras, No date.The story of a 14 year old boy’s boarding school student who is chosen to play the part of Gwendoline in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and finds that dressing as a woman is who he is. Single copy recorded in OCLC, at Yale.
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Three Roads to Femininity
Anoymous
[New York]: [Lee’s Mardi Gras], No date.The stories of three men who take different approaches to cross-dressing. Published without imprint but with the sticker and number stamp of Lee Brewster’s Lee’s Mardi Gras. Possibly Eric Stanton or Gene Bilbrew cover illustration. Single copy recorded in OCLC, at Yale.
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Vollers Corset Company
Vollers Corset Company; Alwyn Coates
Portsmouth: Vollers Corset Company, No date.Modern catalogue for Vollers Corset Company, founded in 1899, they are one of the oldest corset manufactures still operating today. Photography by Alwyn Coates. This copy with no distributor stamp but the price list from Northbound Leather, Toronto, laid in.
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Vollers Corset Company
Vollers Corset Company; Alwyn Coates
Portsmouth: Vollers Corset Company, No date.Modern catalogue for Vollers Corset Company, founded in 1899, they are one of the oldest corset manufactures still operating today. Photography by Alwyn Coates. This copy with the distributor stamp of Sydney bondage store, Kayser Novelty Co.
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Tailoring. How to Make it Pay.
T. H. Holding
London: T. H. Holding, No date.Late 19th century / early 20th century guide to running a successful tailoring business by British tailor and pioneer of modern camping Thomas Hiram Holding (1844-1930).
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Australian Cycling in the Golden Days
H. (“Curly”) Grivell
Adelaide: Courier Press, No date.History of Australian cycling from the 19th century to the 1950s.
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The Voyages to Queensland of the Glamorganshire
Pennie Manderson; Maryborough Family Heritage Institute Volunteers
Maryborough: Maryborough Family Heritage Institute, No date.A look at life on board an immigrant ship. Includes passenger lists for numerous voyages.
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How Australia Took German New Guinea: An Illustrated Record
F. S. Burnell
Sydney: W. C. Penfold & Co, No date.An Illustrated Record of The Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. The first issue published in 1915 immediately after the taking of German New Guinea. Includes a two-page account, five-page list of all personnel, and 52 photographic illustrations.
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The Enigmatical Repository; or Museum of Entertainment,
J. Dawson
Norwich: J. Dawson, No date.Containing Enigmas, Charades, Rebuses, Anagrams, Transpositions, Queries, Logogriphs, Acrostics, &c. Including A Selection of Harmless and Pleasing Experiments in Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Magnetism, &c. Also a variety of Miscellaneous Receipts In the various Departments of Art and Science. A collection of word puzzles and simple chemistry experiments designed for youth amusement. Not in Toole Stott. This copy inscribed by the publisher J. Dawson and from the collection of magician Ricky Jay.