An Absinthe Scrapbook (illustrated PDF ebook)

	- Absinthe Recipes - cocktails with a bitter streak
	- Absinthe Tales - lurid short stories from the Bohemian Age, inspired by visions of the Green Goddess

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A Vintage Paris Photo Tour (PDF ebook postcard album)

An ebook album of antique photos of Paris, mainly late 19th century / early 20th. Includes monchrome, sepia, hand-tinted, gravure and colortint images.

This digital scrapbook edition contains over one hundred period photos, mainly old postcards, of Paris, Parisians the River Seine, and all the famous monuments (Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacré Coeur, Louvre, Bastille, Champs Elysées, Notre Dame...), including aerial views, architecture and busy, animated street scenes.

The photos are organised by theme, together with hyperlinked contents table. The book has been formatted with a mock “aged paper effect” background, to enhance the impression of a 1900's photo souvenir album.  Supplied as a landscape format PDF file, for Acrobat Reader. Price only $3.49  Buy online now

Baudelaire's Paris - a literary tour, by Nigel Woodhead

A literary guided tour through 19th century Bohemian Paris. Evocatively illustrated, with suggested poems (original  French with English translations) for each of the landmark locations from the life of cult French poet Charles Baudelaire, author of the Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil). 

Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris - Art History Tour Guide

Souvenirs of Old Montmartre - Historic Photo Tour

Visit the original haunt of French artists, writers and Bohemians in 19th century Paris, the picturestque hill and its streets around the Sacré Coeur, in the 18th Arrondissement. Vintage photos, antique prints, old documents and theatre programmes, souvenirs from the notorious cabarets, famous bars and cafés, such as the Moulin de la Galette and Cabaret du Néant. 

New, Toulouse-Lautrec, Charles Baudelaire, Club des Haschischins, Moulin Rouge, Paris 
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Graphic photo art and vintage saucy postcard & lithograph designs - "wear your art on your sleeve!"

Cancan Girls - an e-book album of vintage erotic nudes & postcards

Over 100 vintage erotic images - genuine old photos and postcards - frilly fillies, lacey ladies from France, from the Naughty Nineties to the Flappers of the Roaring Twenties, in one elegant e-book! Dancers from famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge often modelled in their spare time, and many of these images survive as postcards. Includes rare photos by famous pioneer photographers such as Nadar, Grundworth, Agelou and Calavas.

Exotic dancers, French maids in uniform, Parisian prostitutes in sexy stockings and suspenders, as well as a cheeky chorus line of cancan girls, ballet and belly dancers, actresses, artists' models, courtesans, Mata Haris, strip teasers, nudes, risqué lingerie, artistic poses and soft focus portraits - naughty Victorian, Edwardian, WWI and 20's beauties. Vive la difference!

Early color, sepia, hand tinted and B&W images. Mock parchment paper effect completes the Victorian "look-and-feel", perfect bedtime reading for a traveling gentleman's portable library... Fascinating insight into the "secret history" of ladies underwear and cosmetic fashion!

100+ French Cabaret Girls - Vintage Postcard Album

100 Years Ago in France - Customs, Crafts & Trades

A collection of vintage portrait photos and old picture postcards depicting traditional French life and folk at work and play. Over 100 images of strange, forgotten rural trades, as well as how some more familiar professions were conducted in the 19th and early 20th centuries. For anyone interested in social history, ethnography or early photography. 

A historic collection, including fishermen and fishwives, weavers, farmers, street vendors and market traders - in PDF ebook format, with tasters from some of our other vintage ethnic photo and travel titles, plus optional rolling slideshow functionality! In presentation mode this e-book makes a novel alternative to a screensaver.

A collection of famous chorus line showgirl portraits & other souvenir ephemera from Paris' legendary Moulin Rouge theater, compiled in PDF format. Dozens of beautiful women artistes in colorful and sexy stage costumes from yesteryear, as well as old photos of the Moulin Rouge itself! For all fans of theatrical and dance nostalgia - a digital scrapbook of vintage photo postcards and reviews from the Golden Age of French music hall. 

This collectible ebook edition comes with tasters from other Performing Arts and Visual History titles, 
plus optional rolling slideshow functionality! Just $2.99 to download!

Voyagers and Voyeurs, by Nigel Woodhead

A treasure-chest from the golden age of travel writing. Long before Peter Mayle grumbled his way through A Year in Provence, or Stephen Clarke traced his slippery path through A Year in the Merde, travellers from the English-speaking world were amazed by the curious customs, the strange sights, sounds and smells of France. Complaining about the waiters, the plumbing, admiring the cheeseboards and pretty girls. 
Annotated, humorous highlights from well over 100 travel accounts (travelogues, diaries, journals, collected letters, reports, guide books, literature) written between 1750 and 1918. English and American authors, including some of the most famous literary figures of the 18th and 19th centuries: Dickens, RL Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Henry James, Thackeray, plus an eccentric host of itinerant parsons, amateur antiquarians, well-heeled aristocrats and ladies of independent spirit. A huge read. 

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 Kill or Curare - a historical crime novel, by Nigel Woodhead

May 1897. Suicidal playwright Oscar Wilde, just released from  prison, arrives in Dieppe. On the same ferry is Captain Drake Hastings, sent by British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, ostensibly to “protect national interests”...
Hastings soon discovers there is far worse beneath the skin of the chic resort than mere political intrigue: against a “Naughty Nineties” backdrop of disease and drugs, absinthe, vice and violence, a serial killer appears to be responsible for the abductions and murders of several English prostitutes working in the town. The authorities are strangely keen to cover up these crimes. Crimes which echo those of the Whitechapel (Ripper) murders of 1888.
The novel features a host of historical characters - decadent writers and artists including Audbrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, Arthur Symons and Leonard Smithers, as well as Edward the Prince of Wales. 

A digital scrapbook with scores of photos and postcards of one of the great dames of the Victorian and Edwardian theater, a renowned beauty in her youth, and a diva of the stage in Europe and the Americas, from Bohemian Paris to Havana. Includes studio portraits, prints, cabinet cards, souvenirs and ephemera, plus images by the famous French photographer Nadar, and stage shots some of the actress starring in most lavish productions including La Dame aux Camelias, Théodora, Les Bouffons and La Sorcière. 

A must for all thespians, fans of theatrical nostalgia, collectors, etc. Supplied as a downloadable PDF ebook file for Acrobat Reader, with autoroll "slideshow" functionality and random transition effects between the images. You are free to interrupt at any point and to browse at your leisure. Also includes tasters from some of our other recent Performing Arts series titles!

Over 100 early erotic photos and old risqué postcards of pretty ladies - mainly topless models, classic ladies' lingerie portraits, life studies from the famous Paris studios such as SAPI, Leo, Mandel...

Edwardian and Art Deco period studio shots, digitized and compiled as a PDF format scrapbook (for Acrobat Reader) with optional rolling slideshow functionality and random transition effects between each nostalgic image.

A portable photo album for your private library of gaslight era erotica! A great alternative to a screensaver.

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Paris A Hundred Years Ago - Vintage Postcards - Calendar 2010

A dozen nostalgic souvenir picture postcards from Paris as it was a century ago. Fascinating and inspiring historical images of the French capital's most famous monuments and streets: the Arc de Triomphe, Rue de Rivoli, Notre Dame Cathedral... Calendar includes French national holidays for 2010, for extra Gallic flavor! A great gift, or just treat yourself! C'est bon!

This digital photograph album contains a collection of historic vintage images featuring the famous gargoyle statues of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The monstrous carved stone effigies that look down on Paris are ancient and mysterious. Their original function - to ward off evil spirits, or to divert rainwater from the walls of the church? Or something altogether more sinister? From the superstitious minds of medieval masons, these mythical beasts, supernatural chimeras, demons, freaks and monsters threatened damnation and worse to the sinners who thronged France's top cathedral. Do these symbolic birds and animals hold the real secret of the Da Vinci Code? Did they inspire Victor Hugo's Quasimodo, in his novel the Hunchback of Notre Dame? There's no doubt they enjoy some of the most picturesque views over the rooftops and spires of Paris. Plus bonus pictures of medieval gargoyles from other French gothic churches. Packed with dozens of fantastic antique souvenir photographs and postcards in moody sepia and B&W - a great value bargain at only $1.99 (less than £1!). Also includes free sample pages and tasters from our other French history, art and literary tours, photo ebooks and slideshows. Of interest to tourists and travelers, postcard collectors, fans of history, architecture and the occult.