Die Anmut Des Frauenliebes ( Grace of Women's Love ) by Krauss, Dr. Friedrich S - 1904

Leipzig: Ethnologischer Verlag, 1911. Hardcover. Fair. green cloth, 314 pp, foxing and marking to some pages, spine torn off, covers frayed Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Leipzig:: A. Schumann’s Verlag,, 1903.. Neuntes Tausend.. publisher’s embossed pictorial cloth.. Very good or better; light use to cloth.. Folio,. Illustrated from photographs throughout.

Deutsche Verlagsactiengesellschaft, Leipzig, 1907 Cloth. 4to. 1st edition thus. Limited #253. Blue boards with gilt lettering at fron & spine. Minor scuffing to boards at edges. Text in German. "An anthropological study of sex customs in Japan. Included are 256 photos and drawings of Japanese erotic prints and objects, including dildos and other sex toys.". 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Leipzig: Ethnologischer Verlag, 1905. Limited ed. Private leatherette spine and boards covered in plastic, volume number marked in pen on spine, corners bumped, and with some discoloration and nicks to boards. Small tear to title page at gutter due to binding. Very good. xvi+480pp., vorwort. Includes some notated musical examples. Text in German. Number 823 of a limited edition. Yearbook of folklore, sociology, and sexual customs from around the world edited and privately published by Krauss, who was a specialist in the ethnology of the South Slavic peoples. This is the second volume of an annual that lasted ten volumes. This volume includes four short sections on language usage, a collection of riddles, proverbs, obituaries, epitaphs, songs, tales, supplications, invocations and prayers. Two-fifths of the book is given over to Krauss's Yugoslavian material. - from Hoffman, Selected Bibliography, page 107.

Leipzig: Ethnologischer Verlag, 1911. Limited ed. Private cloth. Ex libris Dr. A. Sperling, with his bookplate. Remains of tape on endpapers and to several pages of plates at the gutter edge, some of which are loose. Very good.. 528pp.+7pp.+xxix plates. Illust. from drawings and black and white photos. Text in German. Number 62 of a limited edition. Yearbook of folklore, sociology, and sexual customs from around the world edited and privately published by Krauss who was a specialist in the ethnology of the South Slavic peoples. This is the eighth volume of an annual that lasted ten volumes. This issue includes 'source materials and articles which become increasingly exotic, with items from Albania, Haiti, Togo, West Africa, Peru and India, covering such subjects as invulnerability beliefs, menarch ceremonies, erotic sculpture, facial and body hair, and several pieces on graffiti. Another Appendix recounts continuing difficulties with the law: a further report on the Vanselow Case: and Krauss's… Read More

Leipzig: Ethnologischer Verlag, 1910. ltd ed. Cloth spine and gilt-stamped boards. Signatures mostly unopened; some spotting to ads in back matter. Rubbing to extremities and some scuffs to boards. Shaken. Else very good.. 539pp., including ads + xix plates. Illust. from drawings and black and white photos. Text in German. Yearbook of folklore, sociology, and sexual customs from around the world edited and privately published by Krauss who was a specialist in the ethnology of the South Slavic peoples. This is the seventh volume of an annual that lasted ten volumes. "Throughout his career Krauss was harassed by the law, which took a dim view of the value of his researches into sexual customs and practices. But despite his own difficulties in this direction, he was quick to rise to the defense and aid of others similarly persecuted. When the author, Karl Vanselow, was tried, in 1909, on charges of circulating and selling obscene writings and pictures (a set of the ANTHROPOPHYTEIA had been found and… Read More

Leipzig: Deutsche Verlagsaktiengesellschaft, 1909. ltd ed. Cloth spine and gilt-stamped boards. Signatures mostly unopened. Rubbing to extremities and corners bumped. Shaken. Else very good.. 519pp.+4pp.+xxii plates. Illust. from drawings and black and white photos. Text in German. Yearbook of folklore, sociology, and sexual customs from around the world edited and privately published by Krauss who was a specialist in the ethnology of the South Slavic peoples. This is the sixth volume of an annual that lasted ten volumes. "At this point a more logical arrangement of the contents was developed and maintained for the remaining volumes of the series. Each volume opens with a section devoted to several relatively short collections on popular speech. This is followed by a substantial section given over to studies and articles on various aspects of erotic folklore... primary texts, clearly divided into separate genre areas: folktales, riddles, proverbs, and others. The very broad scope of subject matter… Read More

Leipzig: Ethnologischer Verlag, 1913. ltd ed. Black gilt-stapmed cloth. Some rubbbing to points; backstrip split approx. 2" from bottom of spine; front hinge a little loose. Else very good.. 416pp. + 69pp. [Erotische Zauberwahnprozesse zu Berlin in Jahre 1913; Beitrage zur Geschichte der Anthropophyteia-Studien in Deutschland, Nach den Gerichtakten dargestellt von Dr. Friedrich S. Krauss] + vpp. plates. Illust. from drawings and black and white photos. Text in German. Yearbook of folklore, sociology, and sexual customs from around the world edited and privately published by Krauss who was a specialist in the ethnology of the South Slavic peoples. This is the final volume of a ten-volume annual. "Collectanea is laregly forsaken in this last volume of the yearbook series in favor of a greater number of articles, including interesting contributions on hand and finger symbolism, facetiae and the clergy... and eroticism and scatology in Yugoslavian cooking. A special, lengthy appendix is devoted to what… Read More

Leipzig: Wilhelm Heims, 1908. Hardback. VG. A very nice bright copy in original beige cloth. Clean and tight. Some very unobtrusive damp spotting to upper board. 431pp with notes and index. Used; Very Good The author was born in Austro-Hungary, in Croatia of a Jewish family. One of his first publications was a translation of Artemidoros' of Daldis Interpretation of Dreams was cited in Sigmund Freud's book The Interpretation of Dreams. He began his career as a folklorist and ethnologist. In 1884–85, Krauss received funding from the Crown Prince Rudolf to gather folklore and ballads of the Guslar singers in Bosnia, Croatia and Herzogovenia. As a result of this field research, he published a two-volume collection of fairytales, Sagen und Märchen der Südslaven. His research in the field of sexuality led to some conflict and in 1913 he was brought to trial in Berlin as a pornographer, but he was a correspondent of Freud and used the term paraphilia to describe certain deviant sexual practices.

Etnologischer Vlg, 1911. Good. 4°, Leinen. Deckel stark berieben, Seiten altersgemäß angedunkelt/stockfleckig, Kopfschnitt nicht ganz sauber geschnitten, sonst sehr gut erhalten