Der Liebe Lust II [The Love Desire II] Vintage graphic erotica. Vier erotische Bilderfolgen aus dem Biedermeier

Dortmund: Die Bilbiophilen Taschenbucher, 1983. Pictorial Wraps. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Dortmund: Die BibliophilenTaschenbucher, 1983. IN GERMAN AND FRENCH. Erotica. 16mo., 6.5" x 4.75". Blue wraps with illustration pastedown on front cover. Unpaginated. Minute edgewear, else fine. A collection of full color erotica, taken from 19th century French miniature lithographs, showing "libertines" of that era engaged in all sorts of...sports. Though vintage in nature, these are all a little too HC for presenting scans here, the cover image (which see) being pretty much the only one suitable for that. Although the book was produced in Germany [being installment #149 in Die Bibliophilen Taschenbucher's aggregation of similar offerings] and has a bit of text in German, the lithographs reproduced all have short French captions - my personal favorite being "L'asperge a la sauce blanche" ["Asparagus with white sauce"]. In fact, quite collectible, both because it is an assortment of the miniature erotica that Parisian street artists and lithographers produced for extra income - selling these to the leisure-elite gentlemen of Paris around 1840 - and because it is a fine example of one of a prodigious array of such titles produced by DBT [several pages at the end are devoted to the cataloging these]. In far better condition than one is likely to find another. L85