First sex manual written in English – Aristotle’s Master-Piece – goes up for sale at Melbourne Book Fair
The first sex guide, written in English, comes to Australia as one of many historical treasures at the 2025 Melbourne Book Fair over the age of 300 and three days old. And this copy was announced, so we can learn something about the 17th century couple who consulted him.
For centuries, Aristotle Main part Hundreds of prints were reprinted and in the 1930s still offered for sale at Soho sex stores. Aristotle did not actually write (he was a respected name to put it in a scandal study), but the advice from the two doctors Levinus Lemnius and Jacob Ruff came together. Inside, you can learn many aspects of pregnancy, pregnancy, birth and mating.
17th century sex guide’s landing page Aristotle’s Master Party.Credit:
Open racy things for time. Pom Harrington, the owner of the Book of Book Fair, the British bookstores of England Harrington, can be encouraged more than the sensory text to feed the body with the generous restorative restorative restorative, to enlarge the imagination with Musick, so to rise to the curtain of mind, joy and scream. They have explanations and both sides meet an equal Ardor ”.
At the current Melbourne Nadir Book Week, with the free event program that led to the opening of the fair on July 31, there is a lot to make your imagination attractive and probably produce joy and rapture. You can learn to collect the novels of Georgette Heyer; Drawings to Jane Austen’s books; Women who contribute to natural history and science; Or taste some of Ms. Beeton’s iconic recipes. For children and young people in their hearts, there is a diving to Alice’s rabbit hole or a trip to Moominland.
This year, Melbourne is also home to the Mecca event of trade and the International Antikist Books Symposium. Past and current civil servants will talk to newcomers in a session that advises how to start a rare book trade. The symposium will discuss a number of problems for bookstores, including security concerns and the need to fight digital fraud.
Drawings Aristotle’s Master Party – For $ 36,600.Credit:
John Willis, one of the major bibliophils of Australia, will talk about the collection of rare gay and lesbian works. Willis is an old retailer and an early gay activist. The collection comes from donations and at the same time from his own careful work to look for forgotten treasures on bookstores and market stalls.
A statement of interest: I will talk to two leading book women in separate events – Kay Craddock and Lucy Sussex, one of the first criminal writers of Australia, sold 60 -year -old second -hand and antique books.
You can get a few items for a song at the fair, but if you want to buy Harrington’s rare copy Aristotle’s Master PartyIt will bring back $ 36,600. Winifred and Francis Witham did not pay much money for this in 1699. The couple had two sons, but Winifred soon died at birth and may have consulted the book for help with a difficult pregnancy.
