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(CURIOSA.)
Idylle Printanière.
Hand-colored title sheet and 31 lithographed
plates after Feodor Rojankovsky. Plates mea-
sure 275x190 mm, tipped along right side in
two places with tape, some archival, most with
early cellotape, title creased and chipped at
corners, mounts with scattered toning and
occasional crease, first plate creased in margin;
laid into board portfolio with colophon and
early bookseller description mounted to front
cover verso, soiled and separated along joints.
[Paris, circa 1935]
[250/350]
Number 167 of 310 copies. An early copy of
Rojankovsky’s coveted Art Deco erotic portfolio of
plates that depict the amorous adventures of a john
and his French mistress from the Paris Metro, to a
taxi, and finally to their hotel room.The Latvian-
born Rojankovsky, the Caldecott award winning
children’s book illustrator, spent much of his early
career working in Paris, often creating anonymous
works of erotica.The original edition of this portfo-
lio was printed in Paris by EPS in an edition of
516 copies.
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(CURIOSA.) Karwath, Cary von.
Die Erotik in der Kunst.
5 fascicles [all pub-
lished]. 50 tipped-in color plates of erotic art thoughout history. Small folio, printed paper
folders, some joints starting, few corners lightly creased,Volume 5 more worn than others;
laid into custom cloth slide-top box, soiled. Privately printed for the Society of Austrian
Bibliophiles.
Vienna, 1908
[300/500]
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(CURIOSA.) Sade, Marquis de.
Le
Bordel de Venise.
8 plates and 2 vignette
pochoirs of orgy scenes by Couperyn
[pseud. of George A. Drains]. 8vo, pictorial
wrappers, spine ends and tips worn; glas-
sine over-wrapper, chipped along edges
and toned.
NUMBER
68
OF
200
COPIES
.
[Paris]: Pour Quelques Amateurs, 1921
[400/600]
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(CURIOSA.) Verlaine, Paul.
Les
Amies.
Vignettes and three-tone erotic
lesbian woodcut plates by J. G. Darangès.
Printed in pink and black. 4to, original
marbled paper with printed cover label,
neatly rebacked in cream and gold paper,
edgeworn, few light stains; scattered light
marginal soiling; ex-collection Margot
Lewknecht, with her bookplate designed
by Franz von Bayros, laid in.
NUMBER
272
ON ARCHES
, from a total edition of 280.
[Paris]: a L’Enseigne De La Guirlande,
1919
[200/300]
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