Erotica & Curiosa
[CARRACHE, Augustine] L'Aretin d'Augustin Carrache, ou Recueil De Postures Erotiques
[CARRACHE, Augustine] L'Aretin d'Augustin Carrache, ou Recueil De Postures Erotiques
Full title: L'Aretin d'Augustin Carrache, ou Recueil De Postures Erotiques. d'apres les Gravures a l'eau-forte par cet Artiste celebre, Avec le Texte explicatif des Sujets (Aretin by Augustin Carrache, or Collection of Erotic Postures, after the etchings by this famous artist, with the explanatory text of the subjects)
At New Cythera: no date [1925]. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Small folio (10 x 13 inches). Text in French. 80 pp. In a beautiful full black morocco binding (signed Max Fonseque) with 5 raised bands and gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and preliminary pages. Printed on cream vellum with the "Lafuma paper mills" watermark. 20 full page erotic plates engraved by Coiny after Carrache. A very good copy. Quite uncommon.
A superb facsimile of the extremely rare Didot edition of 1798, featuring 20 highly explicit plates showing the erotic play of Graeco-Roman deities and mythological figures, including Mars and Venues, Jupiter and Juno, and many more, including three superb satyr and faun engravings. 20 plates in all in fantastic detail. A right tour de force, as they say!