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Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs : three essays on the powers of reproduction ; with some account of the judicial "congress" as practised in France during the seventeenth century / by John Davenport.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davenport, John, 1789-1877, author.
- Series:
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phallicism.
- Sex customs--France--History--17th century.
- Sex customs.
- Sex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 154 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs
- Place of Publication:
- To be supplied : Project Gutenberg, 2010.
- Contents:
- Ancient phallic worship.
- Anaphrodisia, or Absence of the productive power.
- Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs.
- Notes:
- Frontispiece bound with plates.
- "Privately printed 1869 but not really issued until 1873 after death of J.C. Hotten who prepared it for the press."--F. Boase, Modern English biog., v. 5.
- Preface signed (page vi): "J.D."
- Reproduction of the originals from British Library.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 1113914712
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