Flagellation.- Meibom (Johann Heinrich) De la flagellation dans la medecine et dans les plaisirs de l'amour, half-title, engraved frontispiece depicting flagellation in action, woodcut ornament to title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces (one depicting cherubs with whips), 3pp. publisher's advertisements at end, spotted, lightly browned, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, lacking label, corners worn, narrow section of leather missing from upper cover, rubbed, but solid, [Gay-Lemmonyer I-807; cf. Krivatsy 7722. Waller 6448 & Wellcome IV, 104], 12mo, Paris, Mercier, 1800.*** Rare French translation of Meibom's important work on the transformation of physical pain into sexual pleasure.