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Expedition Antarctique Belge. Au Pays des Manchots: Recit du Voyage de la Belgica
AU$2,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges Lecointe
Bruxelles: Societe Belge de Libraire, 1904.Account of the captain of the RV Belgica, the second in command of the first Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899. Considered the first expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, it was the first expedition to spend the entire winter in the region. Trapped in the ice for a year, they were ill prepared, the polar night driving a number of the crew mad and with scurvy setting in they were forced to subsist on penguin (largely considered inedible). Despite the challenges much scientific data was gathered including around 700 rock samples, for the first time meteorological observations were recorded for a full Antarctic year, and 188 new animal species were discovered. This superlative copy bound in full vellum with leather labels and decorative endpapers, and with a bound in manuscript letter dated 26 July 1904 from Lecointe to Madame Van Halteren requesting her to give the book to her daughter, Miss Van Halteren, signed by Lecointe, also with his monogram stamp and the stamp of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.
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Transes d’images: Anatomie de l’Art S&M
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGuy Lemaire
Bruxelles: Les Editions Secretes, 1993.Fetish SM series by Belgian photographer Guy Lemaire. A lot of torture devices, also body suspension. Signed and numbered edition of 1,000 copies.
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De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet
Bruxelles: H. Dumont, 1837.Consideree sous le rapport de l’hygiene publique, de la morale et de l’administration. ‘Of Prostitution in the City of Paris’, “considered from the point of view of public hygiene, morals, and administration; supported by statistical documents drawn from the archives of the police, with maps and tables.” Authored by French physician Alexandre Parent-Duchatelet (1790-1836), an eminent hygienist who wrote numerous works on public health. This text, published post-humously, became his most famous and is regarded as a medical classic; a major work on the history of prostitution and one of the first empirical sociological surveys based upon nearly 8 eight years of research digging through police archives and conducting field interviews and surveys. The first edition published in 2 volumes in 1836 is considered one of the first work’s of modern sex research. This is the Second Edition to which is added an essay on his life and work by Fr. Leuret.
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Le Cycle Patibulaire (Premiere + Deuxieme, 2 Volumes)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges Eekhoud
Bruxelles: La Renaissance du Livre, 1927.First 2 volume edition.
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Le Roman Belge Contemporain
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBenjamin Mather Woodbridge
Bruxelles: La Renaissance du Livre, 1930.Writing on the Belgian novels of Charles De Goster, Camille Lemonnier, George Eekhoud, Eugen Demolder, and George Virres. Preface by Maurice Wilmotte. This copy inscribed by Woodbridge to A. Poli.