Author: Davenport, John
Title: Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction: With Some Account of the Judicial "Congress" As Practised in France During the Seventeenth Century
Description: London, Privately printed, 1869. Hardcover. Half-bound book with black spine and dark purple covers; xii, 154 pp.; VII leaves of plates; richly illustrated. This is a fun book! "Privately printed 1869 but not really issued until 1873 after death of J.C. Hotten, who prepared it for the press."--F. Boase, Modern English biog. v. 5. Good- (Spine strip is almost completely worn off; covers are detached and heavily worn; first pages are starting, a few are loose; textblock is smudged and toned; plates are lightly foxed.) .

Keywords: History ; History of Phallicism and Aphrodisiacs ; ;


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