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ASHTON, JAMES. The Book of Nature; containing Information for Young People who think of Getting Married, on the Philosophy of Procreation and Sexual Intercourse.Showing also How to Prevent Conception and to Avoid Child-Bearing. 10 wood-engraved plates, 4 of them folding, with partial hand-coloring. iv, 64 pages. 8vo, 162x106 mm, original flexible cloth, minor stains on rear cover; contents clean. New York: Published for the Author, (1859)
scarce first edition. "Among the popular sex manuals of the period, The Book of Nature is unparalleled in the accuracy of the information it provides, and is superior even to many treatises written by and for a professional audience on sexual physiology"--Atwater/Hoolihan 164 (1861 edition). OCLC locates only the University of Rochester and University of Georgia copies.
