London: Printed by Henry Hills, 1708. Second edition, a likely piracy of Moxon's Manchester Daemoniack (1703). Small 8vo, removed pamphlet, 16 pages. "We would account it an horrid thing for one to take the *Body of Christ,* and tread it in the dirt under his feet, and tumble it up..... More

New York: Sold by the Booksellers [Chez les Libraires], 1840. First edition. 2 vols in 1, 12mo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering. Title page vignettes of a viper; one folding facsimile plate. A scurrilous libel accusing Rev. Verren of poor manners, gross language and attempted seduction: "The word *libertine* burst..... More

Bound Brook, N. J. Asa K. Butts, 1886. A later American printing of this landmark work on contraception, but with an interesting imprint. (See below.). 8vo, original printed wrappers, 47, [1] pages. Frontis portrait of Besant. Besant had revolutionized the publication of contraceptive information in England after her republication of..... More

[Boston?]: National Divorce League, 1893. First edition of this extract from the Minutes of the Association. On how to combat the decline of family life, the increase in divorce, and the prevalence of sexual vice in contemporary society. Blame in part is laid to the absence of men on business..... More

St. Louis: n. p., 1910. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 32 pages. "Wherever Rousseauism has gained a foothold, the divorce evil has grown beyond bounds; and after the patient toil of nineteen centuries in which the Church has snatched so large a portion of humanity from barbarism..... More

North Wrentham [Mass.]: New-England Telegraph Press, 1834. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.75 x 5.63 inches, 32 pages, stitched. First published in the columns of Moses Thacher's New-England Telegraph and Eclectic Review, a religious Trojan Horse containing a small troop of early American philosophical and medical thought relating to the..... More

New York: Bermingham & Co., 1883. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 274 pages. From the pioneering American neurologist comes this examination of male impotence, with case studies, including both physiological and psychological causes. (Masturbation, homosexuality, and preoccupation with work all make appearances as culprits; examples of “undoubted..... More

London: Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1880. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 19 pages. Lengthy and legalistic arguments in favor of reforming the marriage laws of Britain, with special focus on the ins and outs of Parliament since the Bill of 1835. Oddly, OCLC seems to note..... More

New-York: G. & C. Carvill, 1827. Stated second edition; a 47-page edition was published in Carlisle, Penna., in 1826. 8vo, removed from a nonce volume (retaining the printed front wrapper and the larger volume's front free endpaper), 48 pages. "Abolish this law; expel this household God: Let it be publicly..... More

Venezia: Antonio Graziosi, 1774. Third Italian edition. 8vo, contemporary vellum spine, sprinkled boards, [2], 164 pages. A nice early Italian edition of this critical work in the pathologization of masturbation. Perhaps an obversation might be made on the spread of a fundamentally Protestant approach to the idea of a “solitary..... More

[Washington, D. C. n. p., 1894]. First edition of each House Report. Two removed pamphlets, approx. 9 x 5.5 inches, 12, 10 pages. HR Report No. 1110 and 1110, Part 2. Should a drunken sexual deviant receive a military pension? The recommendation of the House Committee on Military Affairs to..... More

Cheyenne, Wyo., May 16, 1930. Two pages on one leaf, approx. 10.5 x 7 inches, approx. 420 words, Hackman Coal Yard ("Just the Kind of Coal You Want") letterhead. A remarkably frank attempt to curry a long-distance relationship with a married woman. Hackman, a "58 years young" widower had placed..... More

San Francisco, April 19, 1924. 1 page, approx. 8.5 x 11 inches. Highlighted in color pencil (presumably secretarial) for an executive summary. On the progress of this Red Light District abatement organization, to the banker in Sacramento who was its principal financial backer. More