EditorialFresco from Pompeii: bridal night. A young bride in virgin's girdle about to be deflowered by her husband, while the cubicular slave brings a cask of essences and perfumes. The caption is "Lente impelle" (push gently). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesa...
EditorialBronze statue of Priapus-Hermes wearing a talare tunic, and pouring essences from a vase onto his erect penis. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume i...
EditorialFrom Dohras (Songs) 40 and 42 from the Kitab-i Nauras (Book of Nine Essences) of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur (r. 1580?1627), 1618. Khalilullah Butshikan (Persian, active in India 1596?c. 1620). Ink with two-tone gold on paper, double-sided; ...
EditorialFrom Dohras (Songs) 40 and 42 from the Kitab-i Nauras (Book of Nine Essences) of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur (r. 1580?1627); verso: From Dohras (Songs) 40 and 36 from the Kitab-i Nauras of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II, 1618. Khalilullah Butsh...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii: bridal night. A young bride in virgin's girdle about to be deflowered by her husband, while the cubicular slave brings a cask of essences and perfumes. The caption is "Lente impelle" (push gently). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesa...
EditorialBronze statue of Priapus-Hermes wearing a talare tunic, and pouring essences from a vase onto his erect penis. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume i...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii: bridal night. A young bride in virgin's girdle about to be deflowered by her husband, while the cubicular slave brings a cask of essences and perfumes. The caption is "Lente impelle" (push gently). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesa...
EditorialBronze statue of Priapus-Hermes wearing a talare tunic, and pouring essences from a vase onto his erect penis. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume i...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii: bridal night. A young bride in virgin's girdle about to be deflowered by her husband, while the cubicular slave brings a cask of essences and perfumes. The caption is "Lente impelle" (push gently). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesa...
EditorialBronze statue of Priapus-Hermes wearing a talare tunic, and pouring essences from a vase onto his erect penis. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume i...
EditorialTHE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE SOUTH OF FRANCE: GENERAL VIEW OF GRASSE. The Town is situated in a perfect flower-garden. Perfumers from all parts of the World come here for their Essences.