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Photobooks and Erotica
ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556). Le premier livre des Ragionamenti. Paris: Georges Briffaut, 1939, 4° (220 x 151mm). Pochoir-coloured plates, illustrations, after Berthommé Saint André. Purple and brown moroccco by Beauchesne, with various onlays and gilt tooling on covers and spine to represent the sexual organs within a strapwork frame, top edges gilt, others uncut, slipcase. ONE OF 1500 COPIES with the plates in colour.
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ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556). Le premier livre des Ragionamenti. Paris: Georges Briffaut, 1939, 4° (220 x 151mm). Pochoir-coloured plates, illustrations, after Berthommé Saint André. Purple and brown moroccco by Beauchesne, with various onlays and gilt tooling on covers and spine to represent the sexual organs within a strapwork frame, top edges gilt, others uncut, slipcase. ONE OF 1500 COPIES with the plates in colour.
BILITIS. Les Chansons de ... traduites du Grec par Pierre Louÿs. Brussels: Éditions du Carrefour, [1943]. Small 4°, 16 coloured plates after Suzanne Ballivet, and an extra suite of 16 more explicit coloured plates at end. (Lightly soiled.) Contemporary shaped red leather with applied figure of a female nude in white (somewhat rubbed). Limited edition. -- SOREL, Charles. La vraie histoire comique de Francion. Paris: Imprimerie Union, 1955. Large 8° (271 x 179mm). Illustrations, some full-page, in colour after Schem. Citron half morocco. EXEMPLAIRE D'ARTISTE signed by Schem; and 14 others of similar taste bound in modern morocco (Pierre Louys's Les aventures du Roi Pausole apparently imperfect). (17)
BILITIS. Les Chansons de ... traduites du Grec par Pierre Louÿs. Brussels: Éditions du Carrefour, [1943]. Small 4°, 16 coloured plates after Suzanne Ballivet, and an extra suite of 16 more explicit coloured plates at end. (Lightly soiled.) Contemporary shaped red leather with applied figure of a female nude in white (somewhat rubbed). Limited edition. -- SOREL, Charles. La vraie histoire comique de Francion. Paris: Imprimerie Union, 1955. Large 8° (271 x 179mm). Illustrations, some full-page, in colour after Schem. Citron half morocco. EXEMPLAIRE D'ARTISTE signed by Schem; and 14 others of similar taste bound in modern morocco (Pierre Louys's Les aventures du Roi Pausole apparently imperfect). (17)
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Please note that the lot is in good condition as described in the catalogue although the book by Bilitis is lightly soiled.