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Basic reading for sado-masochists

MEIBOM, Johann Henricus.
De flagrorum usu in re Veneria. Et lumborum rerumque officio. Rarioris argumenti libellus.




Leyden, (1639). Small 8vo. Modern wrappers, uncut. 40 pp.

Rare pirate edition, probably published in Germany with a fictitious Leyden address, shortly after the first edition, published at Lübeck in 1639, of the popular treatise on the use of the whip and flogging in love and marriage by Johan Henricus Meibom (1590-1655), dedicated to Christian Cassius, bishop of Lübeck. Meibom started his career as a physician in Basel in 1619. After a professorship in Helmstedt from 1620 till 1929 he settled in Lübeck. According to Gay-Lemonnyer the Tractatus de usu flagrorum in re medica et venerea (sic!) ... (par Meibomius), published at Leyden in 1629, was the first edition, the Lübeck-edition of 1639 being the second. No such Tractatus seems to exist, however, and "in re  medica" was a much later addition anyway. The Lübeck edition of 1639, no doubt, was the first, as the author was since 1629 town physician at Lübeck and personal physician to the bishop, to which he also dedicated his treatise. No plausible connection of the author with Leyden is to be found either.
In 1643 a regular Leyden edition appeared, published by the Elzeviers. This edition was also followed by a pirate edition, of 48 pp. in duodecimo, leaving out the last part of the text, which probably is conform with Gay-Lemonnyer's title which he states to be "in-12" and which he calls "moins complète". The Lübeck edition being "encore très incomplète". In the  1660's an edition appeared in Frankfurt which has been enlarged with a letter by Thomas Bartholinus addressed to Meibom ("De Flagrorum usu medico"), and with Meibom's reply given at the end of the Latin text of his treatise. Only the treatises by both authors combined, are called De flagrorum usu in re medica et re veneria, and Gay-Lemonnyer obviously only considers these double-treatises as "complete". Meanwhile editions were published everywhere, and kept being published until the present day, both of Meibom's single treatise and of Bartholinus & Meibom's joined treatises, as well as translations in most modern languages. Meibom's treatise belongs still today to the basic readings of erotic and sado-masochist literature.

Good copy, uncut.- (Some browning and sl. marginal foxing).
BMN, p. 192; cf. Gay-Lemonnier I, 820 (Bartholinus-Meibom ed. of Frankf., 1669, 1670); idem III, 1227 (Tractatus of Meibom of 1629; Lübeck ed. of 1639, Leiden ed. 1643, etc.); Rose, Register of erotic books, 2905-13 (18th and 19th English and French translations of Meibom); Kearney, The Private Case 1138-41 (19th century English and French Meibom-translations); Willems, Les Elzevier 555 (Leiden Meibom-ed. of 1643); Krivatsky 7722-4 (Elzevier Meibom-ed. of 1643, undated Leiden ed. after 1643, and Bartholinus-Meibom ed. of Frankfurt, 1670); Bibl. Walleriana 6448 (undated Leiden Meibom ed. after 1643); Med. Books Manchester University Library 225 (idem).

Related Subjects: Erotica  Medicine 

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