![Item #4048 [EROTICA / CURIOSA]. A quantity of three original paintings on recycled leaves from...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4048.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975471)
India: 18th or 19th century (?). Three matted paintings (matte size: 323 x 266; leaf size: 215 x 145 mm; visible image: 170 x 115 mm), hinged to clear Plexiglas so that the manuscript texts on the versos are perfectly legible. Leaves with some soiling, edges slightly frayed along inner..... More
![Item #4027 [EROTICA / CURIOUSA / ISLAMIC LAW]. Original painting, with designs of six animals in...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4027.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689525081)
India: Early 20th century (?). Large painting on a manuscript leaf (in Arabic) from the "Sharh al-Wiqayah" by Burhan al-Shariah, Mahmud ibn Ubayd Allah (SEE BELOW), 353 x 216 mm, hinged onto plexiglas mount with clear tape so that the text of the manuscript is visible from the back; matted..... More
![Item #3217 [CURIOSA]. [A matching pair of strange Indian erotic paintings of exceptionally high...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3217.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600273982)
n.d. (19th or 20th century). Two illuminations on thin India paper some vertical creasing, professionally matted and framed. Ad 1 (priapus): 300 x 250 mm (frame size), 198 x 140 mm (visible), 147 x 93 mm (size of illumination). Ad 2 (she-devil): 306 x 231 mm (frame size), 205 x...... More
Various places: 1896-1940s. Group of 25 photographs or photo postcards of boxing women in varied states of undress, all more or less postcard- sized (some were evidently extracted from an album as there is evidence of glue or tape residue). Each example is preserved in a mylar L-sleeve and laid..... More
![Item #3826 [DEVO / DE-EVOLUTION]. The Beginning Was the End. Man came into being through...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3826.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666718124)
London, Dusseldorf, Vienna: Michael Joseph / Econ Verlag, 1971-1973. First Edition. Together 2 vols., 8vo. Ad 1: 236 pp. (top edge dust-soiled). Original cloth, original dust-jacket printed in red, black and silver (the latter with some abrading along spine and extremities). Ad 2: 242 pp., [1] f. (ads). Original cloth..... More
![Item #3483 [FETISHIZING BREASTS IN MEXICO 1918]. Manzanas Del Paraiso. Libro de Pasion y de...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3483.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620152711)
Mexico City: [Escalante], 1918. Second edition. 8vo. [14], 11-61, [2] pp. Contemporary neat green cloth, with the monogram "J.R.R." (Jose Ruben Romero) at the foot of spine. Lacking wrappers. Text evenly browned, upper margins of a few leaves with short tears (not affecting text). NOT ex-library! Scarce and little-known erotic..... More
