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Erotic literature

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Erotica

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    Monumens de la vie privée des douze Césars, d'après une suite de pierres-gravées sous leur règne / [D'Hancarville].

    Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805. | Date: [1780]
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    Anthologica rarissima : being excerpts from rare, curious and diverting books ... to which are added copious explanatory notes & bibliographical references ... / introduced, compiled & edited by L. and C. Brovan. Volume the first, The way of a virgin.

    | Date: 1922
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    The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, : in prose and verse; serious, moral, and comical. In two volumes. ... To which is prefix'd, A character of Mr. Tho. Brown and his writings, by James Drake.

    Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. | Date: 1707
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    Bibliotheca arcana : seu Catalogus librorum penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised / by Speculator Morum.

    | Date: 1884-1885
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    The iconography of Fanny Hill : how to illustrate a dirty book / William B. Ober.

    Ober, William B., 1920-1993. | Date: 1987

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