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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

Title
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.
Author
Davenport, John, 1789-1877
Publication
London : [publisher not identified], 1869.

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Description
1 online resource (xii, 154 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Series Statement
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Uniform Title
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
Alternative Title
  • 3 essays on the powers of reproduction
  • On the powers of reproduction
Subject
  • Phallicism
  • Sex customs > France > History > 17th century
  • Sex
Note
  • 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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Ancient phallic worship.--Anaphrodisia, or Absence of the productive power.--Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs.
OCLC
  • 1113914712
  • AHSI005100
Author
Davenport, John, 1789-1877, author.
Title
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.
Publisher
London : [publisher not identified], 1869.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note
Gale document number WYQGHD231179854: Provenance notes: From the collection of Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834-1900).
Gale document number NQAWCZ590606822: Presented to the New York Academy of Medicine, by Homer Bostwick, M.D. of New York, March 17th, 1882.
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