$1,599
Decorative Bindings, Erotica, Twenty-four Volumes. Small format sets in gold-tooled leather bindings, including: Chorier's The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea , Paris: Liseux, 1890, edges untrimmed, in half morocco and marbled paper boards; La Fontaine's Tales , London: Privately Printed, 1814, in two volumes, illustrated with sixty-four plates (including frontispieces), in full red morocco, gilt spines, hinges rough; A Paradox on Women Wherein it is Sought to Prove that They Do Not Belong to the Human Species , Paris: Carrington, 1898, [bound with] Conjugal Love or, the Pleasures of the Marriage Bed Considered , Paris: Carrington, 1898, in half red morocco and marbled paper boards, with paper covers bound in; The Secrets of Women , Paris: Carrington, 1899, number 279 of 500 copies printed on Dutch paper, bound in half red morocco; Thomas Brown's (1663-1704) Works , London: Midwinter, 1730, in four volumes, seventh edition, illustrated, bound in full dark blue crushed morocco, spines and boards gilt, a.e.g. in the rough; Jeaffreson's Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson , London: Hurst & Blackett, 1888, in two volumes, half blue morocco and marbled boards; Memoirs of Harriette Wilson , London: by Mitford for Stockdale, in four volumes, uniformly bound in sponge-decorated calf, gilt spines, volume one with hand-colored frontis and extra title, all other volumes with hand-colored frontispieces; a set of seven uniformly bound volumes of Bohn's Extra Volumes , including works by Rabelais Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16
