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George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, London, first edition, 1931. Cloth, large 4to,. v, 752 pp. Approximately 9,000 entries. From the blurb : "This bibliography is a collection of references gathered from books and periodicals in the principal European languages to the various rites and ceremonies connected with the idea of the sanctity of the sexual organs, especially in their relation to procreation. There are many references, too, to the rather incomprehensible and widespread custom of ritual nudity. The idea of 'good luck' seems to have been one, at least, of the ideas connected with this custom, as with the related custom of ritual obscenity, as expressed in speech or in pictorial and sculptured representations, the latter so common in Hindu temples.The phenomenon of sacred prostitution, widespread in the ancient world, and the analogous custom of ritual defloration (an echo of which possibly appears in the mediaeval jus primae noctis), is also the subject of a large number of…
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A Bibliography of Sex Rites and Customs. An Annotated Record of Books, Articles, and Illustrations in all Languages
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Bibliographie des Ouvrages Relatifs a l'Amour, aux Femmes, au Mariage, Contenant les Titres Détaillés de ces Ouvrages, les Noms des Auteurs, un Aperçu de leur Sujet, leur Valeur et leur Prix dans les Ventes, l'Indication de ceux qui ont été poursuivis ou qui ont subi des condamnations, etc
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J. Gay, Paris, second edition, "revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée, notamment d'un index alphabetique", 1864. Contemporary half morocco and green boards, Crewe's gilt garb charge (stamp 2) on front board, 8vo,. xi pp, 810 columns, [2] pp. Bookplate ('E Libris Roberti Comitis de Crewe') of Robert Milnes-Crewe,1st Earl of Crewe, on front pastedown endpaper, covers faded and rubbed, waterstaining to contents throughout, hence Fair.
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Bibliographie des Ouvrages Relatifs a l'Amour, aux Femmes, au Mariage, Contenant les Titres Détaillés de ces Ouvrages, les Noms des Auteurs, un Aperçu de leur Sujet, leur Valeur et leur Prix dans les Ventes, l'Indication de ceux qui ont été poursuivis ou qui ont subi des condamnations, etc
by Gay, J. ; Par M. le C. d'I***
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J. Gay, Paris, second edition, "revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée, notamment d'un index alphabetique.", 1864. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers,8vo,. xi pp, 810 columns, interleaved with blank leaves. Covers rubbed and worn at extremities with some scrapes to leather, some light foxing (a little heavier to title-page and prelims), otherwise Good.
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Bibliotheca Arcana: seu Catalogus Librorum Penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed, prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised
by Speculator Morum [pseud W.L.Clowes]
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Piscean Press/Charles Skilton, London, 1971 reprint of 1885 first edition. Limited edition of 700 numbered copies. Quarter cloth and boards, small 4to,. xxii, 142, xxv pp. 630 entries. A bibliography principally dealing with erotica but including some other material. Deakin (in Catalogi Librorum Eroticorum) notes that while the bibliographic information is not full, some of the notes contain interesting information on authorship etc. Copy No 298. Smokestaining to top edge of textblock and to dustwrapper, faint darkening to boards, contents Very Good.
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Bibliotheca Arcana: seu Catalogus Librorum Penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed, prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised
by Speculator Morum [pseud W.L.Clowes]
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Piscean Press/Charles Skilton, London, 1971 reprint of 1885 first edition. Limited edition of 700 numbered copies. Quarter cloth and boards, small 4to,. xxii, 142, xxv pp. 630 entries. A bibliography principally dealing with erotica but including some other material. Deakin (in Catalogi Librorum Eroticorum) notes that while the bibliographic information is not full, some of the notes contain interesting information on authorship etc. Copy No. 324. An ex-library copy with a white ink callnumber an dgilt library device on the spine, library bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper (overstamped withdrawn), stamps on the title-page and verso of the title-page and on the final text page, otherwise Near Fine.
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Bilder-Lexikon. I. Kulturgeschichte. II. Literatur und Kunst. III. Sexualwissenschaft. [ 3 vols, complete set ]
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Verlag für Kulturforschung, Wien, first edition, 1928-30. 3 vols, half-suede and blue boards, small 4to, 24 cm. 942, [2] pp, 251 tafeln + 944 pp, 287 tafeln + 916, [1] pp, 213 tafeln, profusely illlustrated (many ills in colour). The set comprises: I. Kulturgeschichte. Ein Nachschlagewerk für die Begriffe und Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der Kulturgeschichte, Sittengeschichte, Folklore, Ethnographie, des Kult- und Mysterienwesens, Gesellschaftslebens, der Chronique Scandaleuse, für Zeitdokumente und Biographien. Ein Sammelwerk sittengeschichtlicher Bilddokumente aller Völker und Zeiten. II. Literatur und Kunst. Ein bibliographisches und biographisches Nachschlagewerk, eine Kunst- und Literaturgeschichte für die Gebiete der erotischen Belletristik, der galanten, skandalösen und sotadischen Literaturen, der Facetien, folkloristischen und skatologischen Curiosa von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Ein Sammelwerk der sexuell betonten Produktion aller Völker und Zeiten…
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Bilder-Lexikon. I. Kulturgeschichte. II. Literatur und Kunst. III. Sexualwissenschaft
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Verlag für Kulturforschung, Wien, first edition, 1928-30. 3 vols, half-suede and boards, small 4to, 24 cm. 942, [2] pp, 251 tafeln + 944 pp, 287 tafeln + 916 pp, 213 tafeln, profusely illlustrated (many ills in colour). The set comprises: I. Kulturgeschichte. Ein Nachschlagewerk für die Begriffe und Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der Kulturgeschichte, Sittengeschichte, Folklore, Ethnographie, des Kult- und Mysterienwesens, Gesellschaftslebens, der Chronique Scandaleuse, für Zeitdokumente und Biographien. Ein Sammelwerk sittengeschichtlicher Bilddokumente aller Völker und Zeiten. II. Literatur und Kunst. Ein bibliographisches und biographisches Nachschlagewerk, eine Kunst- und Literaturgeschichte für die Gebiete der erotischen Belletristik, der galanten, skandalösen und sotadischen Literaturen, der Facetien, folkloristischen und skatologischen Curiosa von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Ein Sammelwerk der sexuell betonten Produktion aller Völker und Zeiten auf den…
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Catalogi Librorum Eroticum : A Critical Bibliography of Erotic Bibliographies and Book-Catalogues
by Deakin, T.J
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Cecil and Amelia Woolf, London, first edition, 1964. Limited edition of 400 numbered copies. Cloth, small 8vo,. xii, 28 pp. Deakin aims "to list all the major bibliographies of erotica, together with a large number of items of secondary importance...Critical notes, with an indication of the value and terms of reference of each work, are given." A number of inventories of private collections, considered to be useful, typical, or curious are included. Coverage is confined to the erotica of Western europe, and does not extend to sexological and other scientific bibliographies except where they incidentally record books in the genre. Copy No. 234. Bookplates on front pastedown and front free endpaper, and name and date on front free endpaper, browning fronm bookplate adhesive to verso of front free endpaper with penetration to half-title, otherwise Good.
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Catalogi Librorum Eroticum : A Critical Bibliography of Erotic Bibliographies and Book-Catalogues
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Cecil and Amelia Woolf, London, first edition, 1964. Limited edition of 400 numbered copies. Cloth, small 8vo,. xii, 28 pp. Deakin aims "to list all the major bibliographies of erotica, together with a large number of items of secondary importance...Critical notes, with an indication of the value and terms of reference of each work, are given." A number of inventories of private collections, considered to be useful, typical, or curious are included. Coverage is confined to the erotica of Western europe, and does not extend to sexological and other scientific bibliographies except where they incidentally record books in the genre. Copy No. 23. Very Good.
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Catalogi Librorum Eroticum : A Critical Bibliography of Erotic Bibliographies and Book-Catalogues
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Cecil and Amelia Woolf, London, first edition, 1964. Limited edition of 400 numbered copies. Cloth, small 8vo,. xii, 28 pp. Deakin aims "to list all the major bibliographies of erotica, together with a large number of items of secondary importance...Critical notes, with an indication of the value and terms of reference of each work, are given." A number of inventories of private collections, considered to be useful, typical, or curious are included. Coverage is confined to the erotica of Western europe, and does not extend to sexological and other scientific bibliographies except where they incidentally record books in the genre. Copy No. 353. Some mild spotting to contents, otherwise Good.
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Catalogi Librorum Eroticum : A Critical Bibliography of Erotic Bibliographies and Book-Catalogues
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Cecil and Amelia Woolf, London, first edition, 1964. Limited edition of 400 numbered copies. Cloth, small 8vo,. xii, 28 pp. Deakin aims "to list all the major bibliographies of erotica, together with a large number of items of secondary importance...Critical notes, with an indication of the value and terms of reference of each work, are given." A number of inventories of private collections, considered to be useful, typical, or curious are included. Coverage is confined to the erotica of Western europe, and does not extend to sexological and other scientific bibliographies except where they incidentally record books in the genre. Copy No. 323. Minor spotting to endpapers, otherwise Fine in slightly browned glassine dustwrapper.
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Catalogi Librorum Eroticum : A Critical Bibliography of Erotic Bibliographies and Book-Catalogues
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Cecil and Amelia Woolf, London, first edition, 1964. Limited edition of 400 numbered copies. Cloth, small 8vo,. xii, 28 pp. Deakin aims "to list all the major bibliographies of erotica, together with a large number of items of secondary importance...Critical notes, with an indication of the value and terms of reference of each work, are given." A number of inventories of private collections, considered to be useful, typical, or curious are included. Coverage is confined to the erotica of Western europe, and does not extend to sexological and other scientific bibliographies except where they incidentally record books in the genre. Copy No. 399. Very Good.
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Catalogue of Erotica : including books, objets d'art, watercolours & drawings, prints & photographs, film posters. [ Bloomsbury Book Auctions, auction catalogue, sale date: 20 September, 2007 ]
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Bloomsbury Auctions, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 20th September, 2007. Illustrated laminated wrappers, 4to,. 125 pp, plates, ills (many colour). 383 lots. Very Good.
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Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, being notes bio-biblio-icono-graphical and critical, on curious and uncommon books, by Pisanus Fraxi. [Second volume only of 3-volume set ]
by Ashbee, H.S. [ under pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi ]
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Charles Skilton, London, 1960 reprint of 1879 first edition. Limited edition of 395 sets. Cloth, gilt cover-title, marbled endpapers, 4to, 25 cm,. lx, 593, [2] pp, plates. Deakin in Catalogi Librorum Eroticorum, 1964 says of the first edition of the 3-volume set: " H.S. Ashbee (1834-1900), a wealthy London businessman, amassed over many years an extensive collection of fine erotic books, which he bequeathed to the British Museum. Ashbee's bequest, indeed, forms the nucleus of the private case of that library. His work on erotic literature was prodigious, and his three volumes (which are considerably more than is suggested by their titles) are sui generis: nothing approaching them in quality has ever appeared in English. The set, which is sumptuously produced, contains hundreds of curious items not only with full information regarding pagination, size, the number of copies printed, etc., but also with copious extracts and synopses, which greatly enhance its value. Ashbee's critical…
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Forbidden Books of the Victorians : Henry Spencer Ashbee's Bibliographies of Erotica abridged and edited, with an introduction and Notes, by Peter Fryer
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Odyssey Press, London, first edition, 1970. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. [4], 239 pp. From the blurb: "For far too many years the three volume, descriptive bibliography of erotic and pornographic literature by Henry Spencer Ashbee has remained, because of its rarity, length and price, out of reach of precisely those readers and collectors for whom it must be an indispensable work of reference and amusement. This single volume edition of Ashbee omits only those titles in Latin, Spanish and German - together with a few in other languages - which can nowadays be considered for all common purposes as of little remaining interest. It retains the entire corpus of the most interesting and rare of the Victorian contributions to erotic literature, together with Ashbee's descriptions of earlier books and other curiosa, such as his detailed descriptions of Rowlandson's obscene prints. For the sake of bookmen, moreover, there is a check-list of all the titles originally included by Ashbee, indicating those…
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A History of Erotic Literature
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Macmillan London Ltd, London, first edition, 1982. Cloth, 4to,. 192 pp, ills. From the blurb: "From its origins in the early sixteenth century to the more relaxed atmosphere of the present day, erotic literature has had a checkered and colourful history, delighting and intriguing collectors and bibliophiles almost as much as its readers. For over four centuries erotic works have been clandestinely printed, published anonymously and acquired for the secret libraries of wealthy collectors. A History of Erotic Literature is a new, fully illustrated account of clandestine erotica which makes public for the first time some of the rarest erotica in the world, including the title pages and illustrations from English, French and German classics which have been hidden away in private collections and the Private Case of the British Library until the publication of this book. From Aretino's Sonnetti lussurioso (1527) and Michel Millot's L'Ecole des Filles to John Cleland's classic Memoirs…
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A History of Erotic Literature
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Bookthrift, New York, n.d. reprint of 1982 Macmillan first edition. Cloth, 4to,. 192 pp, ills. From the blurb: "From its origins in the early sixteenth century to the more relaxed atmosphere of the present day, erotic literature has had a checkered and colourful history, delighting and intriguing collectors and bibliophiles almost as much as its readers. For over four centuries erotic works have been clandestinely printed, published anonymously and acquired for the secret libraries of wealthy collectors. A History of Erotic Literature is a new, fully illustrated account of clandestine erotica which makes public for the first time some of the rarest erotica in the world, including the title pages and illustrations from English, French and German classics which have been hidden away in private collections and the Private Case of the British Library until the publication of this book. From Aretino's Sonnetti lussurioso (1527) and Michel Millot's L'Ecole des Filles to John Cleland's…
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Index Librorum Prohibitorum, being notes bio-biblio-icono-graphical and critical, on curious and uncommon books, by Pisanus Fraxi. [ First volume only from 3-volume set ]
by Ashbee, H.S. [ under pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi ]
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Charles Skilton, London, 1960 reprint of 1877 first edition. Limited edition of 395 sets. Cloth, gilt cover-title, 4to, 25 cm,. lxxvi, 542, [2] pp, plates, ills. Deakin in Catalogi Librorum Eroticorum, 1964 says of the first edition of the 3-volume set: " H.S. Ashbee (1834-1900), a wealthy London businessman, amassed over many years an extensive collection of fine erotic books, which he bequeathed to the British Museum. Ashbee's bequest, indeed, forms the nucleus of the private case of that library. His work on erotic literature was prodigious, and his three volumes (which are considerably more than is suggested by their titles) are sui generis: nothing approaching them in quality has ever appeared in English. The set, which is sumptuously produced, contains hundreds of curious items not only with full information regarding pagination, size, the number of copies printed, etc., but also with copious extracts and synopses, which greatly enhance its value. Ashbee's critical notes on erotic…
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Index Librorum Prohibitorum [with] Centuria Librorum Absconditorum [with] Catena Librorum Tacendorum .. being notes bio-biblio-icono-graphical and critical, on curious and uncommon books, by Pisanus Fraxi. [ Erotica Bibliography ]
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Charles Skilton, London, 1960 reprint of 1877-1885 first edition. Limited edition of 395 sets. 3 vols, cloth, 4to, 246 x 184 mm,. lxxvi, 542, [2] + lx, 593, [2] + lvii, 593, [3] pp, plates. Approximately 1,500 entries. Deakin in Catalogi Librorum Eroticorum, 1964 says of the first edition: " H.S. Ashbee (1834-1900), a wealthy London businessman, amassed over many years an extensive collection of fine erotic books, which he bequeathed to the British Museum. Ashbee's bequest, indeed, forms the nucleus of the private case of that library. His work on erotic literature was prodigious, and his three volumes (which are considerably more than is suggested by their titles) are sui generis: nothing approaching them in quality has ever appeared in English. The set, which is sumptuously produced, contains hundreds of curious items not only with full information regarding pagination, size, the number of copies printed, etc., but also with copious extracts and synopses, which greatly enhance its value.…
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Index Librorum Prohibitorum [with] Centuria Librorum Absconditorum [with] Catena Librorum Tacendorum .. being notes bio-biblio-icono-graphical and critical, on curious and uncommon books, by Pisanus Fraxi. [ Erotica Bibliography ]
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Charles Skilton, London, 1960 reprint of 1877-1885 first edition. Limited edition of 395 sets. 3 vols, cloth, 4to, 246 x 184 mm,. lxxvi, 542, [2] + lx, 593, [2] + lvii, 593, [3] pp, plates. Approximately 1,500 entries. Deakin in Catalogi Librorum Eroticorum, 1964 says of the first edition: " H.S. Ashbee (1834-1900), a wealthy London businessman, amassed over many years an extensive collection of fine erotic books, which he bequeathed to the British Museum. Ashbee's bequest, indeed, forms the nucleus of the private case of that library. His work on erotic literature was prodigious, and his three volumes (which are considerably more than is suggested by their titles) are sui generis: nothing approaching them in quality has ever appeared in English. The set, which is sumptuously produced, contains hundreds of curious items not only with full information regarding pagination, size, the number of copies printed, etc., but also with copious extracts and synopses, which greatly enhance its value.…
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