BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DE FIGURIS VENERIS; [illustrations by Paul Avril]
by Avril, Paul; after Friedrich Karl Forberg
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- Vintage small black binder holding black sheets with photos attached; some ghosting to verso of each sheet due to adhesive, whic
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About This Item
Vintage small black binder holding black sheets with photos attached; some ghosting to verso of each sheet due to adhesive, which does not affect the photos. Very good. 5 x 7" black binder, internally spiral-bound, housing 20 b/w photographs of erotic artwork by Paul Avril [Édouard-Henri Avril]. 19 photos measure approx. 4.75 x 3.5"; one photo, laid in, measures 7 x 4.75", and feature artistic renderings of scenes from antiquity, used to illustrate Forberg's De Figuris Veneris (aka The Manual of Classical Erotology): a man masturbates while gazing at a fresco of an orgy; a woman performs cunnlingus on another, bearing a lyre, as two mermaids have sex in the background; a man penetrates a woman from behind as she goes down on another woman seated in a chair; man with goat, etc. Each sheet of the notebook is numbered by hand in pencil. The photos are cut from a larger sheet, and some margins are exposed. Tucked in the back pocket of the binder are 5 negatives. Binder is leatherette and seems to be of 1950s-60s vintage, manufactured by the Boorum & Bease Company of Brooklyn.
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- Alta-Glamour Inc. (US)
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- Title
- BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DE FIGURIS VENERIS; [illustrations by Paul Avril]
- Author
- Avril, Paul; after Friedrich Karl Forberg
- Book Condition
- Used - Vintage small black binder holding black sheets with photos attached; some ghosting to verso of each sheet due to adhesive, whic
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Alta-Glamour Inc.
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Seattle, Washington
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- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.