[Rarebooks] fs: a few recent listings

[Norman Kane]

ARISTOTLE’S MASTER-PIECE . . . THE SECRETS OF GENERATION ... [&] A PRIVATE LOOKING-GLASS FOR THE FEMALE SEX ...
London: “Smith, Jones & Co.” 1838.  Original ribbed cloth, 6-1/2 X 3-1/2 inches, rear cover lightly soiled, a well-preserved copy of this "under the counter" sex manual.  Fronts-portrait and one woodcut, of a human anomaly. 142 pages.  The imprint is, of course, fictitious, and the book may, indeed, have been printed in this country. OCLC locates only 3 copies (Harvard Medical Libr., Brown, U. Vt.) ("Marriage, insufficiency in men and women, monstrous births, midwives, the womb, the genitals, copulation, maladies of the womb, cure, &c, &c.")  All editions of this work tend to be scarce. Being cheaply produced, they are often in tatters - this copy being a happy exception.  $200.00

GRAFFIGNY, MADAME [FRANCOISE  P. H., de.]
LETTRES D'UNE PERUVIENNE.
Lyon, 1787.  12mo, old decorated boards, calf spine, rubbed but sound. Complete with half title and approbation leaf, (the latter not noted by OCLC, which locates only 4  copies of this rather scarce little edition.)  356, [2] pages.  (Novel of the Incan woman, Zelia, Virgin of the Sun, in which the author's comments on French manners and customs are combined with a mild element of romance. This work helped to popularize the epistolary novel. Madame Graffigny's Paris salon was a meeting place for free-thinking men and women, including Rousseau & Helvetius.)
$250.00

KLICKSTEIN, HERBERT S., M.D. 
MARIE SKLODOWSKA.CURIE.  RECHERCHES SUR LES SUBSTANCES RADIOACTIVES.
Mallinckrodt Classics of Radiology, 1966. Original printed wrappers, excellent copy. Includes facsimiles of text, illustrations, &c.  Presentation by the author signed "Klick"  to the noted medical historian Richard H. Shryock.  (Much of modern science, invention and medicine begins here.) $85.00

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