Bubb Kuyper

VARIA. EROTICA, FASHION and COSTUME, JUDAICA, MUSIC, OCCULTISM, PHILOSOPHY, TEXTILES, THEOLOGY etc.

Auction 85, 23-27 Nov 2026

Session of Tuesday 24 November 2026, 9.30 am

On view: Thursday 19 November 2026 – Sunday 22 November 2026, 10.00 am – 4.00 pm · Order of the sale

95 lots

Lot 997

[Cultural history]. Gilmore, D.D. Monsters, Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors.

Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, 1st ed., XI,(3),210p., ills., orig. hcl. w. dustwr. (fine). Wakeman, M.K. God's Battle with the Monster. Leyden, E.J. Brill, 1973, VIII,149,(2)p., orig. gilt cl. Williams, D. Deformed Discourse. The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature. Exeter, Univ. of Exeter Press, 1996, XII,(2),392p., num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Williams, P.V.A. The Fool and The Trickster, Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford. Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 1979, (8),142p., 12 full-p. ills., orig. boards w. (sl. foxed) dustwr. - AND 3 others, i.a. M. VOVELLE, La Mort et l'Occident de 1300 à nos jours (Paris, 1983, plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.).

Estimate €60 – €80

Lot 998

[Cultural history]. Manan, A. The Ritual Calendar of South Acèh, Indonesia.

Münster, Univ.- und Landesbibliothek Münster/ MV-Wissenschaft, 2015, (4),IX,(1),357, col. photogr. ills., orig. wr. Geels, A. Subud and the Javanese Mystical Tradition. Richmond, Curzon, 1997, (10),262p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. - AND 8 others, i.a. S. SUBRAHMANYAM, Courtly Encounters, Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia (London, 2012, ills., orig. hcl. w. dustwr.) and T. JACOBSEN, Lost Goddesses, The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History (Copenhagen, 2008, ills., orig. wr.).

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 999

[Cultural history]. Strong, M. and Wilder, L. (ed.). Viewpoints, Visual Anthropologists at Work.

Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 2009, XV,(1),415p., num. (full-p.) photogr. ills., orig. boards, 4to. Hopes, M. Ilmu, Magic and Divination amongst the Benuaq and Tunjung Dayak. Jakarta, Puspa Swara/ Rio Tinto Foundation, 1997, IX,(1),167p., ills., orig. wr. - AND 8 others, i.a. D. SHULMAN and G.G. STROUMSA (eds.), Dream Cultures, Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming (New York/ Oxford, 1999, orig. boards) and G.E. VON GRUNEBAUM and R. CAILLOIS, The Dream and Human Societies (Berkeley etc., 1966, orig. cl. w. (sl. dam.) dustwr.).

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 1001

[Erotica]. (d'Aucourt, C.C.). Gaudriole, conte.

The Hague [= Paris], I. Beauregard, 1746, (2),196p., engr. title-vignette, early 20th cent. gilt hmor., t.e.g. A.D.M. Gamiani ou deux nuits d'exces. "Sidj, en Hollande", 1866, XIX,(1),140p., later giltlettered hmor., t.e.g. AND 2 others, incl. 1 odd vol., i.a. J. GAY (ed.), Mélanges satiriques et amusants (Brussels, 1877, woodengr. title-vignette, printed in 240 numb. copies, contemp. green hmor. w. gilt spine, t.e.g. First free endpaper and blank loosening).

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 1002

[Erotica]. Le Bréviaire du Carabin. 2ème série contenant Cent Cantiques, hardyment illustrés de soixante-neuf dessins.

N.pl., Éd. du Gland Rose, édition privée, n.d. (±1950), 101,(1)p., num. ills., orig. pict. wr. (Dutel 1115). Virmaitre, C. Les Virtuoses du Trottoir. Paris, P. Lebigre-Duquesne, 1868, 161,(3),(16 publ. cat.)p., orig. wr., sm. 8vo. Willy (= H.G. Villars). Suzette veur me lacher! (Tropical Gigolo). Ibid., Librairie Nilsson, n.d. (1906), 252p., col. ills. and orig. wr. by G. MASSON. - AND 5 others, i.a. V. MARGUERITTE, Prostituée (ibid., 1936, 2 vols., orig. (not unif.) wr. by E. CHIMOT. Both fine).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 1004

[Erotica]. Deel, T. van and Boxsel, P. van. Anna Grammatica - Faunethica.

"Naaigewin, Superprothese, 1969", (15)p., 1 plate and orig. pict. wr. by P. VAN BOXSEL, printed in 175 numb. copies by "Alie Lik Me Snikkel en Ibn Nasrieb (Een Arabiese Bibsrijer)", narrow 4to. - AND 2 others, both French, i.a. R. TETSU, Les Belles Manières (n.pl., n.d. (1960), 40 loose plates and orig. wr. by R. TETSU, printed in 400 numb. copies, in black velvet slipcase, sm. folio).

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 1007

[Erotica]. Fuchs, E. Die Frau in der Karikatur.

Munich, Albert Langen, 1906, X,(4),487,(1)p., 446 ills., orig. giltlettered pict. cl. by REZNICEK, 4to. Kahn, G. Das Weib in der Karikatur Frankreichs. Stuttgart, Hermann Schmidt, n.d. (1907), VII,472p., 448 ills., orig. giltlettered pict. cl., 4to.

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 1008

[Erotica]. Fuekwell. La Princesse s'amuse.

Pahos, Temple de Cythère, n.d. (±1905), 2 parts in 1 vol. w. continuous pagination, 289p., contemp. gilt hmor. w. red mor. letterpiece, orig. wr. pres. AND 1 other: (Saint-Luc, La Vicomtesse de). Autour du mariage de Paulette ou un bon ménage moderniste. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1905), 197p., later gilt hmor. w. green letterpiece, sm. 8vo.

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 1009

[Erotica]. Guérard, P. L'art de jouir ou Traité pratique des caresses voluptueuses. Recettes & formules sur les aphrodisiaques et philtres d'amour.

N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1900), 1st ed., 174p., contemp. boards w. black mor. letterpiece. AND 2 others: L.-J. LARCHER, Satires et diatribes sur les femmes, l'amour et le mariage. Avec une refutation (Paris, 1860, contemp. gilt hcalf, t.e.g. Bookplate of Hector Treub on first free endpaper) and C.H. DE FUSÉE DE VOISENON, Exercises de devotion de M. Henri Roch avec Madame la duchesse de Condor (Amst., ±1900, contemp. gilt red mor., t.e.g., sm. 8vo).

Estimate €70 – €90

Lot 1010

[Erotica]. Hanson, D. The Big Butt Book.

Cologne, Taschen, 2010, 366,(6)p., profusely illustrated, orig. boards w. perspex dustwr., 4to. Bertholet, F. Concubines and Courtesans. Women in Chinese Erotic Art. Brussels, Mercatorfonds, 2010, 206p., num. (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to. Murphy, M. Great Bordellos of the World. An illustrated history. London etc., Quartet Books, 1983, 254p., (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 3 others, i.a. A. MUTHESIUS and G. NÉRET, Twentieth-Century Erotic Art (Cologne, 1998, col. ills., orig. boards, die-cut slipcase, 4to).

Estimate €70 – €90

Lot 1011

[Erotica]. Der Junggeselle.

Year 4 (no. 27-52). Berlin, Der Junggeselle, 1922, 26 issues in 1 vol., richly illustrated, orig. (?) engr. giltlettered boards, orig. wr. pres., 4to. AND 9 loose issues of Der Junggeselle: Year 5, no. 12, 14-18, 23 & 37 and Year 6, no. 6 (ibid., 1923-1924. Frontwr. occas. loose/ soiled).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 1018

[Erotica]. Louys, P. Trois filles de leur mère.

N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (Berlin, Officina Serpentis, ±1930), (4),302,(2)p., printed in 250 numb. copies (225), orig. hvellum w. red mor. letterpiece. Choix de pièces désopilantes dédié aux Pantagruélistes pour 1867. Charenton, n.publ., 1867, 273,(2)p., title-vignette, printed in 150 numb. copies (138), contemp. giltlettered hmor., t.e.g. AND 2 others, i.a. LE GRAND ORDINAIRE (n.pl., n.d., ills. by O. DOMINGUEZ, orig. wr. Fine).

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 1020

[Erotica]. Perceau, L. Le libertin veilli et Autres Stances.

Paris, G. Briffaut, 1935, 51,(4)p., loosely inserted engr. portrait by P. GANDON, printed in 700 numb. copies (500), orig. wr. Marti, E. Discours sur la musique Zéphyrienne adressé aux vénérables crépitophiles [lovers of flatulence]. Ibid., L. Willem, 1873, (4),XV,(1),188,(1)p., printed in 300 numb. copies (200), later vellum w. orange giltlettered letterpiece, orig. wr. pres. AND 7 others, incl. 1 incomplete vol., i.a. R. DE P., Les amours de Camille ou Les Délices de la Volupté (ibid., les Marchands de Nouveautés, n.d. (±1903), later plain wr., sm. 8vo. Dutel 26); CHEVALIER DE WILFORT, Les leçons de la volupté ou confession générale (Amst., 1891, contemp. plain wr.) and L. PROTAT, Examen subi par Mademoiselle Flora à l'effet d'obtenir son dilplôme de Putain et d'être admise au Bordel de Mme Lebrun (...) (n.pl., n.publ., n.d. (prob. ±1950 or later), frontisp., contemp. giltlettered hvellum, slipcase).

Estimate €120 – €150

Lot 1021

[Erotica]. Radiguet, R. (= P. Pia). Jeux innocents.

N.pl. (Paris), Robinson, Sous les Tonnelles, n.d. (1926), no pagination, printed in 64 numb. copies (60), w. loosely inserted the facsimiles of 3 autograph poems on 4 leaves in the orig. envelope, orig. wr.

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 1023

[Erotica]. Riche-en-gueule, ou le nouveau Vadé;

Contenant Gueule-de-Fer; les aventures plaisantes et divertissantes du Carnaval; précédé de la vie, des amours et de la mort de Mardi-Gras; suivi de nouveaux Dialogues poissards (...). Publié par un enfant de la joie. Paris, n.publ., 1824, 238p., num. woodcut tail-pieces, contemp. gilt marbled hcalf. Bibiena, J.G. de. La Poupée. London (= Paris?), n.publ., 1782, (4),218p., contemp. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece, a.e.g., 12mo.

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 1025

[Erotica]. The Secret History of Betty Ireland.

London, S. Lee, 1888, 58p., contemp. gilt vellum. The Simple Tale of Susan Aked Or Innocence Awakened, Ignorance Dispelled, Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense. London/ New York, The Erotica Biblion Society, 1898, 208p., orig. publ. wr., sm. 8vo. AND 3 others similar, i.a. ROCHESTERIANA. Ed. J. Prinz (Leipsic, 1928, frontisp. portrait of Lord Rochester, printed in 250 numb. copies (225), contemp. giltlettered hmor., orig. frontwr. pres. Covers nibbled by silverfish) and THE STORY OF A VIRGIN (Paris, 1899, orig. wr.,12mo. Fine).

Estimate €120 – €150

Lot 1030

[Erotica]. Ze'evi, D. Producing Desire. Changing sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

Berkeley etc., Univ. of California Press, 2006, XV,(1),223,(5)p., ills., orig. wr. Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. The Sultan's Sex Potions. Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages. Trans. and introd. D.L. Newman. London, Saqi, 2014, 208,72p., orig. boards w. dustwr. - AND 9 others, i.a. K. BABAYAN and A. NAJMABADI (ed.), Islamicate Sexualities. Translation across Temporal Geographies of Desire (Cambridge, 2008, orig. wr.) and S.O. MURRAY, W. ROSCOE a.o., Islamic Homosexuality (New York/ London, 1997, orig. wr.).

Estimate €60 – €80

Lot 1031

[Erotica]. Lot

of 17 vols., i.a. A. KUPER, Incest and Influence. The private life of Bourgeois England (Cambridge/ London, 2009, orig. cl. w. dustwr.); J.M. GOULEMOT, Forbidden Texts. Erotic Literature and its Readers in Eighteenth-Century France. Engl. trans. J. Simpson (Philadelphia, 1994, orig. cl. w. dustwr.); C. QUÉTEL, The History of Syphilis. Engl. trans. J. Braddock and B. Pike (Baltimore, 1992, ills., orig. wr.) and R. BERNSTEIN, The East, the West, and Sex. A History of Erotic Encounters (New York, 2009, orig. boards) (all fine).

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 1032

[Erotica]. Mercadette (= A. Momas). Débuts d'un Minet.

Paris/ Brussels, n.publ., 1901, 1st ed., 214p., later gilt hmor., orig. wr. pres., t.e.g. AND 3 others, i.a. J. GRAND-CARTERET, La Femme en Culotte (Paris, n.d. (1899), num. ills. by F. FAU and G. GIRRANE, contemp. giltlettered hmor., orig. wr. pres., t.e.g. Sl. yellowed; paper brittle).

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 1033

[Fashion and costume]. Albrechtsen, N. Vintage mode.

Kerkdriel, Librero, 2015, 432p., num. col. ills., orig. cl., 4to. Albers, A. On Weaving. Princeton/ Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2017, XI,(3),258p., num. col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 3 others, i.a. K. HATANAKA, Textile Arts of India: Kokyo Hatanaka Collection (Kyoto, 1993, num. col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 1035

[Fashion and costume]. Art. Goût. Beauté. Feuillets de l'Élégance Feminine.

Octobre 1925. Paris, A.G.B., 1925, (36)p., (tipped-in) (pochoir-col.) plates/ ills., adverts, orig. wr., folio. Gazettes des Dames. Vol. VI, no. 9-10. London, International Commercial Service, 1926, 2 parts, no pagination, (tipped-in) (pochoir-col.) plates/ ills., orig. unif. wr., folio. AND 2 other 1920s fashion magazines (mediocre condition).

Estimate €60 – €80

Lot 1043

[Fashion and costume]. (Javanese parasole).

Pajong Ambarawa, S(?)ing Sing, n.d. (±1920-1940), handpainted oiled paper, length 57 cm./ Ø 67 cm. (Chinese parasole). N.pl. n.d. (±1960-1970), col. printed cotton on bamboo structure w. hand-carved wooden handle, length 55 cm./ Ø 68 cm.

Estimate €40 – €60

Lot 1049

[Fashion and costume]. Très Parisien.

La Mode, Le Chic, L'élégance. Year 3, no.9 and 10; year 7, no.9; year 8, no.10; year 9, no.9; year 10, no.1, 6 and 10; and year 11, no.7. Ed. G.P. Joumard. Paris, G.-P. Joumard, 1922-1930, 9 issues, all (16)p., together 145 (of 162) tipped-in pochoir-col. fashion plates on parchment paper and 2 suppl. plates, (pochoir col.) ills., orig. wr. w. pochoir-col. pict. parchment paper wr. (6x mounted on contemp. boards), 4to. Les Chapeaux du "Très Parisien". Year 8, no. 2 and 4; and year 11, no. 4. Été/ Hiver 1928; Hiver 1931. Ibid., idem, 1922-1928, 3 parts, each (4)p., 54 tipped-in pochoir-col. fashion plates on parchment paper, (pochoir col.) ills., orig. wr. w. pochoir-col. pict. parchment paper wr.

Estimate €1,000 – €1,500

Lot 1051

[Fashion and costume]. Lot

of ±60 odd issues of various fashion periodicals. 1901-1949, ills., orig. wr., 4to/ folio.

Estimate €70 – €90

Lot 1054

[Gastronomy]. Escoffier, A. Het kookboek van de klassieke keuken. Dutch transl. W. Born (a.o.).

Utrecht, HES, 1985, 3 vols., XVI,1024; (4),164p., fold table, printed in 1250 DELUXE copies, orig. unif. gilt red cl., orig. cl. slipcase, 4to. Walton, A.H. Love recipes old and new. A study of Aphrodisiacs Throughout the Ages, with sections on Suitable Food, Glandular Extracts, Hormone Stimulation and Rejuvenation. London, Torchstream books, 1956, 267,(1)p., 12 plates, printed in 1375 numb. copies, orig. cl. w. dustwr. - AND 2 others by/ after Escoffier: A. ESCOFFIER, Ma Cuisine. Escoffier voor iedereen. Introd. J. van Dam a.o. (Utr., 1988, orig. boards) and another edition of the facs. Livre des menus (bound in grey cloth).

Estimate €150 – €250

Lot 1055

[Gastronomy]. Morgenstern, L. Nieuw Geillustreerd Kookboek.

Alkmaar, Gebr. Kluitman, 1930, XII,643,(8)p., col. plates, ills., orig. boards. Vos, S. Oorspronkelijk Israëlitisch kookboek. Amst., n.publ. (J.L. Joachimsthal), n.d. (1914), 180p., orig. wr. = Landwehr 145; Bibil. Gastr. 6526. Gas Huishoudboek 1940. Doesburg, Gemeente Gasfabriek Doesburg, 1940, 111,(25)p., orig. wr. Oetker, A. Bakken is een genoegen! Een nieuwe bundel recepten van Dr. August Oetker. Amst., INHAMA, 1934, 45,(3)p., orig. wr.

Estimate €40 – €60