$554
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).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-11-15
