Engravings from the Dutch edition of de Sade's La Nouvelle Justine, or, The Misfortune of Virtue.

De Sade's "Les 120 Journées de Sodome" is the first detailed study of psychopathia sexualis ever written and it remains the most complete in its descriptions. This extensive study describes in minute detail as many as 600 types of deviant sexual activity. The value of the work has been acclaimed by medical, scientific and scholastic authorities. And Bloch suggested that this book placed de Sade in the front rank of the important writers of the eighteenth-century.