[LACROIX, Paul.] – ‘Pierre Dafour’. Histoire de la Prostitution chez

[LACROIX, Paul.] – ‘Pierre Dafour’. Histoire de la Prostitution chez tous les Peuples du Monde depuis L’ Antiquité la Plus Reculée Jusquá nos Jours par Pierre Dufour. Bruxelles: Librairie Universelle de J. Rozez, [1851]- 1854. First edition, 8 vols., (173 x 119mm.) Engraved frontispiece, engraved plates. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary black half calf, red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (extremities rubbed, residue to front pastedowns). Provenance: Tamara Lo (name-plate to front pastedowns). Note: an early history of prostitution with rather gothic and macabre plates. It’s pseudonymously written but attributed to Paul Lacroix, writer and librarian. He is also thought to have published ‘La Danse Macabre’ in 1832 (8).

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