Set of twenty 7 x 5" photographs of erotic artwork by Paul Avril [Édouard-Henri Avril]. Includes title card. Artistic renderings of scenes from antiquity, used to illustrate Forberg's De Figuris Veneris (aka The Manual of Classical Erotology): threesomes an dorgies; a gay scene; a woman performs cunnlingus on another, bearing..... More
Paris: Rene Bonnel, 1932. 8vo. 223pp. No. 444 of 500 copies. A reprint of the edition published at Paris in the 1880's by Isidore Liseux. The Manual D'Erotologie Classique is Forberg's 'commentary' to the 1824 edition of Antonius Beccadelli's Panormita, and comprises one of the richest sources of information accumulated..... More
North Hollywood: Brandon House, 1965. First Thus. x+248pp., preface by Hilary E. Holt. An anthology of writings from such classical Roman writers as Seneca, Julius Caesar, Virgil, Horace, Martial, Ovid and other famous figures of antique literature. An English version of Forberg’s commentary to his edition of Antonius Beccadelli’s Hermaphroditus..... More
Paris: Cercle du Livre Precieux [Claude Tchou], 1959. 8vo. Three volumes, paginated 96 +75 pp [+16 duotone plates]. Head- and tail-pieces. Index, bibliographie, et table des matieres. Loose signatures in printed paper wrappers, cased in a black silk-covered hardbound sleeve and box. Printed on velin blanc. Marqué "H.C." Édité à..... More