Paris: Beauger et Cie, 1841. First edition. "Rare en belle condition, importante par son texte sur Paris et par son illustration due à une belle pléiade d'artistes" (Carteret). Read More about Museum Parisien Histoire Physiologique, Pittoresque, Philosophique et Grotesque de Toutes les...

Paris: Furne, 1860. Moreau le Jeune. With Plates by Moreau. Demoustier's letters to a schoolgirl on the sometimes delicate and racy myths of the Greeks were all the rage at the end of the 18th century, and his book went through several editions -- with the Moreau plates they are..... Read More about Lettres ê Emilie sur la Mythologie

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie Place de la Bourse, 29, [1848]. Read More about Album du Journal pour Rire 1848

[1903]. Jules Renard, who later formed his name "Draner" as an anagram of his surname Renard, a name that he used all his life in all his drawings, as seen in this cartoon, was a famous illustrator for numerous famous newspapers in France. Read More about Cartoon of Uncle Sam or Brother Jonathan performing a trick with balls of Panama, Haiti and Cuba

Strassburg: J. H. Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1903. Read More about Versuch einer Dürer Bibliographie

Paris: Les éditions G. Crès et Cie, 1922. No. 59 of 360 copies printed on Grand Vergé de Rives. La Fontaine with Eisen Plates. A superb edition featuring the original exquisite Eisen plates, an improved text, beautiful paper, fine typography, a pleasing overall design in a leather binding to match..... Read More about Contes et Nouvelles en Vers ... illustrés avec compositions gravées d'après les dessins de...

Geneva and Paris: Chez Lejay, 1771. First edition. Read More about Poësies Pastorales suivies De la Voix de la nature, Poëme, des Lettres de Sainville & de...

Antwerp: Vulguait Boëtius a Bolswert, Typis Henrici Aertssenii, 1624. First edition. First edition of the most popular spiritual love emblem book, which made the genre popular throughout Europe in the 17th century and beyond. By the end of the 18th century the Pia Desideria had been reprinted nearly 40 times..... Read More about Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus SS. Patrvm illustrata

Vienna: Kürner, 1704. Second (?) edition (first published in Vienna, 1676). Rare Austrian Emblem Book: None in America. An extremely rare and curious emblem book, with the text in the form of seven dialogues between Vir Politicus and Theologicus by the Hungarian Jesuit theologian Johann Raicsani (or Janos Rajcsanyi). The..... Read More about Itinerarium Athei ad Veritatis viam deducti; in quo Atheizantium objectae nebulae lucidissimo...

[Arnhem/Amsterdam: Jan Janssonius/Dirk Pietersz Pers, ca. 1610]. Jode, Geerhardt de. Third edition. Compelling emblem book featuring half-page woodcuts by Jode with a biblical text beneath and facing commentary. The third edition of a work first published in 1579. Lacking final leaf of text but with all illustrations. Read More about Mikrokosmos [Greek]. Parvus Mundus

Wien (Vienna): Verlag für Kulturforschung, 1931. First edition. Social and Cultural History of the 'Wedding Night'. Compendium of historical, cultural, social and medical commentary on virginity and defloration, with chapters on anatomy, demi-vierges, infibulation, defloration technqiues. This volume in the "Legitimate Erotica" series includes a Facsimile Photo Album "from the..... Read More about Die Brautnacht: Eine Ethnologisch-Kulturgeshichtliche und Sexualphysiologisch Schilderung Ihres...

N.p: Publisher unknown, n.d. [ca.1950s]. Edition of 300, unnumbered copy. "Cette édition de luxe sur vélin offset de 140 gr., limitée à 300 exemplaires, numérotés, pour un groupe de Bibliophiles, est strictement réservée aux souscripteurs.”. Unrecorded French Erotica. French libertine novel of erotic encounters at the seaside, with suite of..... Read More about Baignades Fin de Siècle