[CURIOSA - MEIBOM (Johann Heinrich). On the usefulness of flogging in the pleasures of marriage and in medicine, And the functions of the Loins and Kidneys. Paris: [Jacques Girouard], 1792. - 2 parts in one volume in-18, 126 x 77 : frontispiece, 168, 119 pp. Brown speckled calf, triple gilt fillet on the boards, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (period binding). New edition of this curious treatise composed by the German physician Johann Heinrich Meibom (1590-1655) who defends the use of blows to stimulate sexual activity. This edition was published by the printer, bookseller, editor and writer Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne (1763-1800) and includes numerous critical and historical notes . The Latin text has been added at the end, with a proper pagination, under the title: De Flagrorum usu in re medica et venerea. The illustration consists of a charming frontispiece and a figure captioned " Bon ! il sert mes plaisirs ", engraved by G. Texier. This figure is very rare and missing most of the time. Copy in which have been mounted five free engravings, four of which are the faithful reproduction of four of Elluin's engravings after Borel for the 1787 edition of the Mémoires de Saturnin. They are taken from the edition given by Louis Perceau in 1920 of the Histoire de Dom Bougre Portier des Chartreux. The fifth is from the edition given around 1865 in Brussels of Mirabeau's Degré des âges du plaisir. Rubbing to the hinges and headpieces, dull corners, small restoration to the bottom of the spine. Angular loss to the D1 leaf in the second part, without affecting the text. Provenance : Tony Fekete, with erotic bookplate representing a female sex, signed Wahorn (sale May 21, 2021, n° 302).