ANONYME

L'Université libre, série mensuelle n° 2


no publisher | [Paris] February | 1942 | 22 x 28 cm | one leaf
First edition, clandestinely printed, of this Parisian Resistance journal, only two issues of which appeared in September/October 1941 and February 1942.
Small marginal tears, not serious, two folds as originally folded.
hough taking the name of the «L'Université libre» Resistance group of intellectuals created by Georges Politzer, Jacques Decour, Paul Langevin and Jacques Solomon, this «monthly review» more than likely was not the work of this group. The 103 issues of Politzer's newspaper were roneotyped and not, like the present...

Secret erotic playing cards - King of Clubs
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady, kneeling at the feet of the King, performs an acupuncture procedure on his erect member.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing cards – King of Diamonds

[France] [ca 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm | one playing card

Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: the King's virile attributes are visible.
A real curio!

Secret erotic playing cards - King of Spades
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: the King's virile attributes are visible.
A curiosity!

Four of Spades
[France c. 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a handsome man with a moustache is straddled by a lady with her hair in a bun, while a dog – with its four paws in the air – pleasures them both.

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Secret erotic playing cards - Jack of Diamonds
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady with her dress hitched up appears next to a valet who strokes her.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing cards - Jack of Spades
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady is sitting underneath the valet and is caressing him.
A curiosity!

Jack of Hearts
[France c. 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady is sitting underneath the valet and is caressing him.

Queen of Diamonds
[France c. 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm
Secret erotic playing card,
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady urinates in a pail.

Secret erotic playing cards - Jack of Clubs
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a valet, with visible genitalia, screws a lady with her shirt hitched up.
A curiosity!

no publisher | no place [ca 1900] | 10.3 x 14 cm | sewed

First edition of this set of 10 erotic engravings, of which the title refers to Victor Ernst Nesslerb's eponymous opera created in 1884, showing the bawdiness of said trumpet player and a lady. The last engraving picks up a verse from the opera: «Behüt dich Gott, es wär so schön gewesen».
Blank cover with red and black patterned paper heightened with gold.
Some minor, marginal tears. Title page rubbed and a little water stained.
The pamphlet has a minor central fold.
Of the utmost rarity: no other copies referenced in libraries.

First edition with quotations from Guy Debord, Charles Fourier and Anton Pannekoek and illustrated, in the situationist way, of comic strip.
A clear spot in the foot of the first board, otherwise nice copy.
Rare.

Souvenir des Grâces, Étrennes aux Dames


Chez Rosa | Cabinet Littéraire | Paris 1819 | 7.8 x 12.3 cm | publisher's binding
First edition, with a title vignette and 6 plates.
Gilded paper boards, slipcase. Covers and spine decorated with pink paper showing countryside and maritime scenes surrounded by floral friezes on boards, lyres and crowns on spine. White paper case. Lavender endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt.
wo library labels, one to front pastedown, one to title.
The pink paper slightly peeling on spine, case soiled, edges of covers slightly rubbed, a little spotting.

Original drawing in watercolor and pencil.
View of Socoa, a seaside resort famous for its beaches, in the bay of Saint Jean de Luz.
This watercolor drawing was later added to a set of landscapes in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, drawings, and wash. Executed in the first quarter of the 19th century, these drawings and prints give a panorama of the major towns and resorts appreciated by the European aristocracy (as here Socoa), but also the places that mark the "Grand Tour" An obligatory journey of the post-Napoleonic nobility who came to Italy to make an artistic and bucolic pilgrimage.