STRAPAROLA, Giovanni Francesco; Les facétieuses nuits de Straparole

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From newsletter 16:

32. VENETTE, Nicolaus Von Erzeugung der Menschen. Mit Königl. Pohl. und Chur-Fürstl. Sächs. Allergnädigsten Privilegio. Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1711. Small 8vo. Pleasing twentieth-century marbled boards with a morocco title ticket. (64), 608 p. With portrait frontispice and 8 illustrations, mainly of male and female sex organs. Browned and in some parts spotted. Some old underlinings.

€ 200

* Early 18th century edition, a German translation of De la generation de l'homme, ou Tableau de l'amour conjugal published in 1686 under a pseudonym by Venette (1633-1698), one of the very first books about sexology.

From newsletter 14:

18.  VENETTE, Nicolaus Von Erzeugung der Menschen. Mit Königl. Pohl. und Chur-Fürstl. Sächs. Allergnädigsten Privilegio.  Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1711. Small 8vo. Twentieth-century marbled boards with a morocco title ticket, very nice. With portrait frontispice and 8 illustrations, mainly of male and female sex organs. Browned and in some parts spotted. Some old underlinings. 

€ 220

* Later edition, 1711, a German translation of De la generation de l'homme, ou Tableau de l'amour conjugal.