![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=1696975887)
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=1689525068)
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=1600273962)
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
![Item #2388 [CHASTITY BELTS]. Plaidoyer de Mr. Freydier avocat a Nismes, contre l'introduction de...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2388.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725971291)
Paris: Jules Gay, 1863. Hardcover. 16mo. xv, [1], 56 pp. (slightly toned). With 2 engraved plates depicting different models of "ceintures de chastete" i.e. chastity belts (trifle foxed). Bound by [Cyprien] Lhuinte of Grenoble, green half morocco over blue marbled boards (spine a little sunned, extremities slightly worn), top edges..... More
