Erotica and Early Books, Seven Titles in Leather Bindings.

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Erotica and Early Books, Seven Titles in Leather Bindings.
Including: La Pucelle d'Orleans, London: aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1764, octavo, illustrated, bound in later full sponge-decorated calf gilt-tooled spine; Demoniality or Incubi and Succubi by the Reverend Father Sinistrari of Ameno, Paris: Liseux, 1879, octavo, in half dark green sheep, gilt title on spine; Pierre Matthieu's Unhappy Prosperity, London: by Harper for Vavasour, 1639, second edition, 12mo, in full brown morocco; Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, London: for the author and Dublin reprinted, 1794, 12mo, in full burgundy calf, gilt-tooled spine; Father Sinistrari's Peccatum Mutum (the Mute Sin, alias Sodomy), Paris: Liseux, 1893, 12mo, in half leather; Robert Burns' Not for Maids, Ministers, or Striplings: The Merry Muses, [No place: no printer] Privately Printed, Not for Sale, 1827, 12mo, in half red leather, front board becoming detached; [and] La Fontaine's Tales Imitated in English Verse, London: for C. Chapple, 1814, volume one only. (7)

Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934).
Estimate $300-500


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