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NEWTwo volumes, 135 x 85 mm each, uniformly bound in full brown morocco with triple fillet border, flat spine with gilt fleurons and double fillet bands, gilt lettered label, interior dentelle, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; four volumes in two, collated in 12mo. Vol. 1: pp.: [1-5] 6-100, coll.: 1-86 92;(i.e. 50 leaves); [1-5] 6-130; coll.: 1-106 115 (i.e. 65 leaves); plus two blanks in the front and at the rear, and nine plates, incl. frontispiece. Vol. 2: pp.: [1-5] 6-111 [112 blank], coll.: 14 2-96 104 (i.e. 56 leaves); [4 ht, tp] [1] 2-99 [100 blank], coll.: π2 1-86 92 (i.e. 52 leaves); plus two blanks in the front and at rear, and four plates. Title-page: FÉLICIA, | OU | MES FREDAINES. | {in rules} La faute en est aux Dieux qui me firent si folle.| TOME PREMIER/ SECOND/ TROISIÉME/ QUATRIÈME. | —•— | A LONDRES | M. DCC. LXXVI. || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel, A-399, p. 132. Contributors: André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (French, 1739 – 1800) – author. -
NEWHardcover, 169 x 100 mm, quarter brown sheepskin over speckled paper, flat spine, gilt double fillet bands, crimson morocco label with gilt lettering, printed on French paper watermarked “FIN 1787”; two volumes in one, collated in 12mo. Tome premier: π1 h.t., A8 (A1 t.p., A2,3 Lettre de Sophie au chevalier d'Olzan), B4 C8 D4 E8 F4 G8, H4, I4; pp.: [2] [i-iii] iv-vi, [7] 8-104, plus three plates, p. 24 printed on cream wove paper, pp. 66, 67 on blue laid paper (or pasted on such). Tome second: A8 (incl. h.t. and t.p.) B4 C8 D4 E8 F4 G8 H4 I8 K4, L4; pp.: [1-5] 6-127 [1 blank]; all three plates printed on cream wove paper; plate marked as p.68 is after p. 64, plate marked p.64 is after p. 68, plate p. 79 is on its place. Plates attributed to Louis Binet. Text is attributed mainly to Comte de Mirabeau; however, Guillaume Apollinaire, in his L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale (1913), believes that Marquis de Sentilly wrote it. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-de Ricci 709; Dutel I A-988, p. 294. Contributors: Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de (French, 1749 – 1791) Binet, Louis (French, 1744 – 1800) Seller's description: Deux parties en un volume in-12. 165 x 97 mm. Tome premier: I f. n. ch. faux-titre, 104 pp. y compris le titre avec une vignette gravée, la "Lettre de Sophie au chevalier d'Olzan" qui débute l'ouvrage est paginée en chiffres romains. Tome second: 127 pp. tout compris et 1 p. bl. 6 gravures libres non signées qui sont de Binet. Reliure de l'époque. Demi-basane brune, plats de papier coquille moucheté, dos lisse omé de deux filets dorés répétés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, lettres dorées, tranches jaspées. Reliure un peu frottée, coins émoussés. Quelques rousseurs. Rarissime deuxième édition de cet Émile de l'éducation sexuelle enrichie de gravures libres attribuables à Binet. -
NEWZeugnis (Grade book) – a set of fifteen plates, incl. the title page and the colophon, that tells the story of a schoolgirl whose parents spanked her for not being a good student. Watercolour and ink on 244 x 344 mm cream laid paper with Hahnemühle's watermark (rooster with a shield), signed and dated in manuscript on the last page (colophon) "O. R. SCHATZ | 954 | X", unbound (disbound), with four binding holes in the left margin of each sheet; no boards. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWWatercolour, pen and ink on laid paper 313 x 265 mm; each monogrammed "ORS” in manuscript; seven ex-album holes along the left margin. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWCardboard clamshell box of red buckram over marbled paper 360 x 260 mm, contains 13 drawings (watercolour and pen on paper), wove paper sheets approx. 220 x 190 mm, title page mounted on a blank sheet and monogrammed 'ORS", others in passe-partout 350 x 250 mm, unsigned. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWGreen paper cardboard flapped portfolio 325 x 235 mm with the pasted label "• ENTRÉE • | INTERDITE | AU | PUBLIC", contains a folded by half in-folio sheet with the title "INTERDITE | AU | PUBLIC", limitation statement "TIRÉ A 250 EXEMPLAIRES TOUS SUR JAPON IMPÉRIAL | N° 22", and a notice by Pierre Mac-Orlan; and 20 loose leaves of plates—heliogravures, printed in black, bistre, red or green on Japon Impérial laid paper ~ 275 x 210 mm, each in a passepartout 314 x 226 mm, plate marks from 63x92 to 220x277 mm. According to J.-P. Dutel № 1487, pp. 150/1, five of these prints have not been published before, while fifteen are copies of two original works by Vertés:- Six from Le Pays A Mon Gout: 12 etchings. — Paris: [n.p.], 1921; Limited to 550 copies.
- Nine from L'Heure exquise: 20 pointes sèches originales. — Paris [Vienne], 1920 ; Limited to 200 copies.
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NEWFlapped portfolio 330 x 245 mm, blue cloth spine over crimson paper boards, contains six loose etched plates printed on laid paper, each in a passepartout 320 x 235 mm, incl. title sheet 175 x 210 mm with plate mark 120 x 165 mm, and five other sheets of various sizes (220-250 x 163-215 mm). Contributors: Schoff, Otto (German, 1888 – 1938) Gurlitt, Fritz (Austrian-German, 1854 – 1893) According to many sources, there should be six etchings besides the title-page. Another set that belonged to Hans-Jürgen Döpp and was sold in Berlin on May 10, 2024, has an additional image:
And another '7th plate' can be found at honesterotica.com:
However, I believe the six etchings mentioned at t.p. are all in the portfolio, including t.p. The two images above are probably parts of other sets.
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NEWHardcover, 188 x 118 mm, brown half-morocco over burgundy faux-chagrin, spine with raised bands and burgundy label with gilt lettering, gilt fleurons in compartments, floral diaper endpapers, collated 8vo:ffl, π2 1-138, ffl, pp. [4] 1-207 [208], plus frontispiece portrait and 8 unnumbered leaves of plates, etchings, one of them hand-coloured; limitation to half-title verso: "Tirage a 300 exemplaires". The title page is loose. Each gathering has 4 'tall' pages (1, 2, 7, 8 - 181 mm) and 4 'short' (3, 4, 5, 6 - 165 mm). Two parts are in one vol., signed and paged continuously; the second part has its own half-title and title pages. "Fin de première partie" at p. 107 (76), part 2 h.t. at 77, part 2 t.p. similar to the main t.p. but in black only at 78. The portrait of Étienne de Jouy was possibly engraved by Charles Monselet (French, 1825 – 1888) after Julien-Léopold Boilly (French, 1796 – 1874). Title-page (red and black): LA GALERIE | DES | FEMMES | COLLECTION INCOMPLÈTE DE HUIT TABLEAUX | RECUEILLIS PAR UN AMATEUR | L'amour est le roman du cœur | Et le plaisir en est l'histoire. | BEAUMARCHAIS. Folle journ. | — | A HAMBOURG | – | 1799 Compare to Dutel: 8 plates instead of 9; no two-page text “Nous espérions joinder à ce livre une notice…” before Deux mots de préface, the word FIN on p. 207 instead of 203, no table of contents at the end; no imprint Bruxelles. — Imp. de J. H. Briard, rue des Minimes, 51, on the same page as Table, signed 15. Dutel: № A-456, p.148:- In-8 (18,4 x 11) de (2 ff.), II, 203 pp., 1 ff. de table, couv. jaune imp. en rouge.
- Édition publiée à Bruxelles en 1869 par J.-P. Blanche. Elle est ornée de 9 gravures et d'un facsimilé de l'écriture de Monselet, qui n'est pour rien dans ce volume.
- Tirage : 300 exemplaires.
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NEWA cardboard file 298 x 225 mm made of quarter red cloth over marbled paper, with laces, contains 18 loose chromolithographs approx.190 x 130 mm, 8 vertical and 10 horizontal) in a passepartout 275 x 220 mm (matted) of laid paper with an armorial watermark, with lewd humorous captions on glassine guard tissue attached to each sheet, upper and outer margins uncut. Images signed “–Santippa–36”.Label to front cover lettered Variations Amoureuses | avec 18 gravures en couleurs ||. No title page. It is quite likely that the set exists in only one copy. Description by seller: Album in-folio, 272 x 218 cm. En feuilles, sous chemise cartonnée à lacets de l'éditeur. Les lithographies sont respectivement intitulées : Branlade; Plaisir Champêtre; Justice; Entre Marins ; Cocher; Suce-moi bien ; Encore; Les Joies; Un Marin; On raconte ; Plaisir Divin ; Le Marin; Quand un Gendarme ; soixante et Neuf; Tous les Moyens ; Le Plus Cochon; Le Fantassin; Coup Double. Le peintre Gaston Hoffmann (1883-1977), consacra la majeure partie de son œuvre à l'érotisme et la caricature, en signant ses sujets trop libres sous le pseudonyme de Santippa. Contributor: Gaston Hoffmann [Santippa] (French, 1883 – 1977). Ref: Honesterotica.com provides only 8 images of 18. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III: № 2581:
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![Antiquarian Book Review. The Erotic Issue / vol. 29, number 9, issue 333. November 2002. – London: Countrywide Editions Limited, 2002. pp.: [1-3, incl. fc] 4-74 [2].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2528.2020-a-500x500.jpeg)
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NEWSoftcover comics book, oblong flapped wrappers, 186 x 280 mm, pink border in black rules, black lettering to front, 45 unpaginated leaves (pp. 90) with text and pictorial story, some in-text woodcuts and a tail-piece. No title-page. Catalogue Raisonné: Dutel III, 2424, pp. 368-9. The publication was prosecuted per the French Law of December 20, 1965. Sophie is a re-written version of Puberté. Journal d’une escolière [by Maria Luz],pyblished in 1933 by Éditions Raoul Saillard, Paris. Publisher: Éric Losfeld (Belgian-French, 1922 – 1979) -
NEWHardcover, 231 x 165 mm, half brown cloth over cardboard, lettering in a frame to front, similar to t.p., pp.: [4] [1] 2-151 [152], collated 4to: π2 1-194, i.e. 78 leaves. Entries are in alphabetic order by name. Title-page (and front cover): Bibliotheca Germanorum | erotica. | Verzeichniss der gesammten | deutschen erotischen Literatur | mit Einschluss der Uebersetzungen. | Nachschlagebuch für Literaturhistoriker, | Antiquare und Bibliothekare. | Nach den zuverlässigsten Quellen | bearbeitet von | H. Nay. | — •— | Leipzig, 1875. || [Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica. List of all German erotic literature, including translations. Reference book for literary historians, antiquarians and librarians. Based on the most reliable sources edited by H. Nay]. Imprint: Druck von E. Rupfer in Stuttgart. Ref: Worldcat. Author: Hugo Hayn [Nay, H.] (German, 1843 – 1923) -
NEWHardcover, 306 x 283 mm, pictorial cardboard, white lettering to front and spine, pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-14] 15-224, illustrated in colour throughout. The 1st edition in 2000, published by The Pepin Press in Amsterdam. Title-page (white on black): Erotic Art of the Early Nineteenth Century | Romantique | {publisher’s device} | Bearsville, New York || ISBN 1-59020-000-4. Contents: Daydreams of the Juste Milieu: On the Historico-cultural Milieu of Erotic Lithographs The New Order of Love: Charles Fourier, the Unwavering Dreamer of Liberated Passions Achille Devéria and His School The Trader and the Policeman: Catalogues of Nineteenth Century Erotic Art The Blue Sofa On the Beginning and End of our Sexuality Soloists Duets Trios Quartets The Noble Orgy -
NEWHardcover, 226 x 226 mm, pictorial cardboard, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], illustrated in colour throughout. Title-page (crimson and black): PRÉFACE | MARIE-HÉLÈNE LAFON | DIRECTION | MARIE-PAULE CAIRE-JABINET | De la séduction… | CARTES POSTALES | DE LA BELLE ÉPOOUE | ET DES ANNÉES FOLLES | TEXTES DE | CORINNE LEGOY | LAIN QUELLA-VILLÉGER | JULIETTE RENNES | MARIANNE RÖTIG | ATCHA SALMON | CHRISTELLE TARAUD | SYLVAIN VENAYRE | Bleu autour || ISBN: 9782358480727 -
NEWThe good old days of naughty postcards: Softcover, 160 x 160 mm, blue flapped wrappers, front with a keyhole openwork showing the vignette in colour on the flap; pp. [1-9] 10-272 [4], colour illustrations throughout, topics from A to Z, historical erotic postcards from the author's collection. Title-page: LA BELLE ÉPOQUE | DES CARTES COQUINES | Christian DEFLANDRE | HORAY || Annotation (back wrapper): De A comme Adam, à Z comme Zizi, de lestes galanteries aux vertes gauloiseries témoignent de 'esprit facétieux de la vie amoureuse à la Belle Époque. Qualifies de « grivoises » par les amateurs de nudités, « licencieuses » par les moralistes, ces cartes au charme désuet dévoilent la sensualité et 'érotisme de nos arrière-grands-parents. ISBN 978-2-7058-0466-4 -
NEWTwo-volume edition, uniform pictorial glossy oblong 215 x 263 mm hardcover, catalogue of the sales exhibition from May 25 to July 17, 1993, held at the former rooms of the Galerie Wimmer & Co. in Munich. Vol. 1: The Nude in Art: From Romanticism to the Present; pp.: [2] 3-109, 86 colour plates and 16 b/w illustrations. Artists represented: Otto Müller, Paul Paede, Max Liebermann, Rudolf Nissl, Hans Licht, Leopold Schmutzler, Julius Schlegel, Paul Peel, Karl Truppe, Otto Herbig, Mozart Rottmann, Karl Schlageter, Wilhelm Hempfing, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Franz von Stuck, Marcel Herrfeldt, Jörg Trübner (Sohn des Wilhelm), Julius Hüther, Ludwig Bock, Ernst Fuchs, etc. Title-page: “Der Akt in der Kunst” | Von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Bronzen, Graphiken | — | Verkaufsausstellung vom 25. Mai bis 17. Juli 1993 | ~ | DAS GEMÄLDE CABINETT UNGER | in den ehemaligen Räumen der Galerie Wimmer & Co. seit 1825 | 8000 München 2, Brienner Straße 7, Telefon (089) 22 75 15 u. 29 84 04 | Montag - Freitag 10 - 18 Uhr, Samstag 10 - 14 Uhr, langer Samstag 10 - 16 Uhr || Vol. 2: Eroticism in Art: From Eroticism to Perversion; pp.: [2] 3-100, 93 colour plates and 29 b/w illustrations. Artists represented: Otto Rudolf Schatz (28 watercolours), Fried Pal, Alois Harbeck, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Max Brüning, Max Schwimmer, Alfons Walde, Karl Heidelbach, Josef Werner Leben, etc. Two aquatints by Emil Sartori (Ranzenhofer) marked as Emil Sartou, and two others of him as Erotischer Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts; two aquatints by Frans von Bayros marked as Unbekannter Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts. Title-page: Erotik in der Kunst | “Von der Erotik bis zur Perversion” | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, | Zeichnungen, Bronzen, Graphiken | (ibid). -
NEWSoftcover, 290 x 205 mm, publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], text in English, French, and German, profusely illustrated. First edition published in 2011. Title-page: Edited by Dian Hanson | LA | PETITE | MORT | § | PHOTOGRAPHS BY SANTILLO | TASCHEN || Hanson, Dian (American, b. 1951) – editor/text Santillo, William (American) – photographer -
NEWPublisher’s tea green French flapped wrappers with double bordered vignette embossed to front, 298 x 295 mm, 18 gatherings in 4to (i.e. 72 leaves), 280 x 190 mm leaves plus one gathering in the wrappers, outer and lower margins untrimmed; pagination: [2] [1-15] 16-136 [4] [2], not counting leaves in the wrappers; paper watermarked “Lana” (grand vélin de Lana a la forme); 16 pictorial etchings and two fac-simile ms etchings within collation, tissue guards; in a double slipcase 306 x 204 mm with a vignette “capital C in ribbons” to spine of the inner chemise. Title-page (lilac and black) PIERRE LOUŸS | CYDALISE | AVEC DES ILLUSTRATIONS ORIGINALES | GRAVES A L'EAU-FORTE | {woodcut vignette} | LES AMIS DE L'ÉCRIVAIN | — | PARIS | M C M X L I X || Limitation: JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGE | CETTE ÉDITION ORIGINALE | DU LIVRE DE CYDALISE A ETÉ, POUR SON TIRAGE, LIMITÉE | A DEUX CENT SOIXANTE CINQ EXEMPLAIRES | DONT LA DISTRIBUTION S'EFFECTUE DE LA | FAÇON SUIVANTE. […] DEUX CENTS EXEMPLAIRES SUR GRAND VELIN DE LANA A LA FORME NUMÉROTÉS DE 51 A 250. […] EXEMPLAIRE N° 91 || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 1333, p. 116; Nordmann II № 309, 151. Ref: honesterotica.com Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Jean Traynier (French, fl. 1942 – 1957) – artist (attributed)
