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FORBERG (Friedrich-Karl). Manual of classical erotology (De figuris veneris). Latin text and literal translation by the Translator of the Dialogues of Luisa Sigea [Alcide Bonneau]. Paris, for Isidore Liseux and friends, 1882. 2 vols. in-8 fawn morocco, finely decorated smooth spines, gilt title and tomaison, "M.S. n°3" in gilt lettering on tail, fine framing of gilt fillets, garlands and fleurons on boards, gilt head, gilt inner framing, covers and spines preserved, in common edged slipcase (H. Capelle). A very rare first edition of only 100 copies on Hollande, not sold commercially. A very fine copy. With the prospectus for the 1932 reprint. "Forberg, the author of this manual, born in Menselwitz in 1770, died in 1848 in Hildburghausen, was a follower and collaborator of Fichte, with whom he published various large books of transcendental philosophy. He was also a highly learned humanist, and in 1807 was appointed librarian to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg. In 1824, to take his mind off his serious studies, he published Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus, nicknamed the Panormitan, a collection of epigrams of no great literary value, but which borrows from the commentary that Forberg has appended to it, and above all from the treatise "de figuris Veneris" which he followed. It is this latter work that is published, text and translation side by side, under the title Manuel d'érotologie classique. This work is No. 3 in the curious Musée secret du bibliophile printed by Liseux for himself and his friends. This manual is indeed the most complete and stunning erotic anthology imaginable by classification. Ch. Forberg, dividing his work into eight special chapters, seems to have drawn up a chessboard of known and practiced physical and antiphysical human pleasures, as well as prostitution, from the earliest times. It's impossible to move or jump out of this chessboard; everything is planned, everything is there, and the most exuberant imagination as depravity is made mate like a simple king. De Sade would have roared, but in vain, at seeing himself locked into Forberg's cold, erudite classification, where all manifestations of priapic fantasy are enclosed. [...]" (Gay III, 23.)

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FORBERG (Friedrich-Karl). Manual of classical erotology (De figuris veneris). Latin text and literal translation by the Translator of the Dialogues of Luisa Sigea [Alcide Bonneau]. Paris, for Isidore Liseux and friends, 1882. 2 vols. in-8 fawn morocco, finely decorated smooth spines, gilt title and tomaison, "M.S. n°3" in gilt lettering on tail, fine framing of gilt fillets, garlands and fleurons on boards, gilt head, gilt inner framing, covers and spines preserved, in common edged slipcase (H. Capelle). A very rare first edition of only 100 copies on Hollande, not sold commercially. A very fine copy. With the prospectus for the 1932 reprint. "Forberg, the author of this manual, born in Menselwitz in 1770, died in 1848 in Hildburghausen, was a follower and collaborator of Fichte, with whom he published various large books of transcendental philosophy. He was also a highly learned humanist, and in 1807 was appointed librarian to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg. In 1824, to take his mind off his serious studies, he published Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus, nicknamed the Panormitan, a collection of epigrams of no great literary value, but which borrows from the commentary that Forberg has appended to it, and above all from the treatise "de figuris Veneris" which he followed. It is this latter work that is published, text and translation side by side, under the title Manuel d'érotologie classique. This work is No. 3 in the curious Musée secret du bibliophile printed by Liseux for himself and his friends. This manual is indeed the most complete and stunning erotic anthology imaginable by classification. Ch. Forberg, dividing his work into eight special chapters, seems to have drawn up a chessboard of known and practiced physical and antiphysical human pleasures, as well as prostitution, from the earliest times. It's impossible to move or jump out of this chessboard; everything is planned, everything is there, and the most exuberant imagination as depravity is made mate like a simple king. De Sade would have roared, but in vain, at seeing himself locked into Forberg's cold, erudite classification, where all manifestations of priapic fantasy are enclosed. [...]" (Gay III, 23.)

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