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Everything you always wanted to know about 17th century sex life
[VENETTE, Nicolas].Venus minsieke gasthuis, waer in beschreven worden de bedryven der liefde in den staet des houwelijks, met de natuurlijke eygenschappen der mannen en vrouwen, hare siekten, oirsaken en genesingen. Door I. V. E. Medicinae doctor.      Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1687. 8vo. Full contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece depicting a ward in a hospital, dated 1687 by Joseph Mulder. (28), 654, (28) pp. Rare first edition of the Dutch translation of this very popular work. The contents take a position somewhere between sexual education and pornography. The initials on the title are fake. In the preface of the French original, which was first published not long before and of which a French edition was published in Amsterdam by Jean et Gilles Janson a Waesberge in the same year, the author is refered to as 'Mons. Salocini Venetien', which is a conversion of the real name of the author: Nicolas Venette. The well-known French title was La génération de l'homme ou tableau de l'amour conjugal. That the book was immensely popular is proven by the fact that the printer Timotheus ten Hoorn - who was perhaps also the translator - in 1688 already was able to print the third edition followed by at least 12 editions till the end of the eightteenth century. In the last two decades of the seventeenth century more works on sexual education and venereal diseases were published by this printer. The book provides a very interesting glimpse of seventeenth century sexual behaviour. Good copy with ownership's entry of H.J. Satin (?) in the lower margin of the frontispiece.- (Frontispiece somewhat soiled)
Waller 1731; Scheepers I, 572; Bibl. Med. Neerl., p. 221 and 352; J. G. te Lint, ' "Venus minsieke gasthuis"', in: Ned. tijdschrift voor verlosk. en gynaecologie 25 (1916), p. 272ff.; H. F. Wijnman, in: Het Boek, 22 (1933-4), p. 199-201; only one copy in a Dutch public library: the UL-A'dam.
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