Avril, Paul. De Figuris Veneris. Suite de 19 gravures en couleurs et un frontispice. Suite of 19 color etched plates, each with printed tracing paper. No location, around 1910. Sheet size: 22.5 x 28 cm. Loose in original printed cover and original half canvas portfolio with mounted color frontispiece (one portfolio leaf loose, cover browned). One of 175 numbered copies. - "Cette suite destinée aux seuls souscripteurs n'a pas été mis dans le commerce." (printer's mark). - Suite to a 2-volume edition of "Forberg, Manuel d'érotologie classique". - Not in Pia. - Plates with small collector's stamp on verso. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.

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