Alfred/Alex Hartwich/Herlinger - Die Brautnacht and Flucht aus der Ehe - 1931

(EROTICA) Illustrated with reproductions of erotic drawings, engravings, photographs in half-tone and gravure after works by Perckhammer, von Bayros, Willinger-Lechner, Manasse, Schein, and others. With eight color plates. 192 pp. With 6 mounted photographic prints. Original gilt-decorated green cloth, Compendium of historical, cultural, social and medical commentary on virginity and defloration, with chapters on anatomy, demi-vierges, infibulation, defloration technqiues. This volume in the "Legitimate Erotica" series includes a Photo Album "from the Estate of a Defloration Fetishist Who Committed Suicide," with six mounted plates of suggestively posed nudes. Ref.: Book of nudes by Bertolotti page 116-117. Ref.: Heidtmann, Wie das Photo ins Buch kam