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From newsletter 12:
1. Amsterdamsch Hoerdom / Putanisme d'Amsterdam Putanisme d'Amsterdam, Le. Livre contenant les tours et les ruses dont se servent les putains et les maquerelles; comme aussi leurs manières de vivre, leurs croyances erronées et, en général, toutes les choses qui sont en pratique parmi ces donzeles. Bruxelles, J.-J. Gay, 1883. 19 x 12 cm. Original wrappers. XII, 196 p. Printed in red and black on mould-made paper. Frontispice and four illustrations in photogravure. With publisher's ads on lower cover (7 titles). Backstrip damaged and 'repaired' with tape and paper, upper en lower cover worn and soiled. Some shelf numbers in color pencil (but no stamps!). Some foxing.
€ 50
* About prostitution in Amsterdam
(17th century). A (rather rare) reprint of the edition of
1681 by Jules Gay, a French publisher who had fled his native country
because of problems with censorship. The illustrations are reproductions
of the original engravings.
