$861
Decorative Bindings, Erotica, Thirty-four Volumes. Small-format sets and single volumes in leather bindings, including: Bibliotheca Arcana , London: Redway, 1895; Forbidden Books, Notes and Gossip on Tabooed Literature by an Old Bibliophile , Paris: Carrington, 1902; La Pucelle, the Maid of Orleans , London: for the Lutetian Society, 1899, in two volumes, with erotic illustrations; Album zu den Memoiren des Jacob Casanova , thirty illustrations by Max Berthold, c. 1872, no title; Forberg's Manual of Classical Erotology , Manchester: privately printed for Viscount Julian Smithson and Friends, 1884, in two volumes, one of 100 copies; and twenty-seven others. (34) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16