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⁂ Please note the description of this lot has changed ⁂ Sexology.- [Venette (Nicolas)] The Mysteries of Conjugal Love Reveal'd, first edition in English, a little soiled, a few stains, ?lacking A8-B1, disbound, broken and loose, [this edition not in BL or Wellcome], 8vo, John Chomley, 1703.

Rare edition of the first proper Western sex manual, translated from the seventh edition of Tableau de l'amour humain considéré dans l'état du mariage, first published in Amsterdam in 1686. The four parts cover anatomy, love & desire, reproduction, and impotence & infertility respectively.

We have been unable to trace this edition in any institutional library and it has only appeared at auction twice in recent years. Most English editions are translations of the eighth edition, appearing from 1707 onwards, and the earliest in the British Library and Wellcome is the third edition of 1712. The most recent copy at auction was in 2024 but this contained only 8pp. of preliminaries compared to 28pp. in the present copy.

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