Velde Theo (2 results)

Large 8vo, pp. xxiv, 324, [10] publisher's advertisements, [2] blank; with one folding table, and eight folding plates and graphs, partially coloured; some light foxing and soiling, gutter cracked at title-page but holding firm, small paper abrasion on title-page; modern booksellers price label adhered to verso of final free endpaper; contemporary plum roan backed publisher's cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, head of spine rubbed and worn with small splits to both upper joints, further rubbing and fading to spine, covers a little soiled and corners bumped and lightly worn. Third edition (first 1926) of this noted work on marital sexual health by the noted Dutch gynaecologist Theo Van de Velde. 'An Ideal Marriage' was written whilst in exile from the Netherlands, Van de Velde having left his wife and eloped with a married patient. This liberal treatise was put on the Catholic Church's index of prohibited books, a decision which no doubt contributed to the work's success. It was the best known work on the subject for many years, rivalling the works of Marie Stopes, and was translated into several languages, going through over forty printings and selling millions of copies. Roy Porter & Lesley Hall, 'The Facts of Life' The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950. p. 212.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Comes with the 12 photobooks, - Catrien Ariëns, in de beste tradities, 1993, SIGNED - Bertien van Manen, A hundered summers, a hundered winters, 1995, first edition, second printing, SIGNED - Eddy Posthuma de Boer, Voor het oog van de Wereld, 1997, SIGNED - Paul den Hollander, Voyage Botanique, 1999, SIGNED - Theo Baart, Bouwlust, 2001, SIGNED - Céline van Balen, Céline van Balen, 2003, SIGNED - Geert van Kesteren, Why Mister, Why?, 2005, SIGNED - Kadir van Loohuizen, Diamond Matters, 2007 - Niels Stomps, Mist, 2009, SIGNED - Henk Wildschut, Shelter, 2011, SIGNED - Vivianne Sassen, In and Out of Fashion, 2013 SIGNED - Koos Breukel, Me We, 2015, SIGNED. Signed by Illustrator(s).…