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Plays for the people, illustrated by the printer?

AMSTERDAM CHAMBER OF RHETORIC.

Zeven Spelen van die Wercken der Bermherticheyd. In rijm ghemaeckt, en nu tot Aemstelredam opentlijck ghespeelt, Anno 1591.

Amsterdam: Herman Jansz. Muller, 1591.

Price: $7,500.00

Wine, women, & gobbledygook: the shifting shapes of humor

BRUSCAMBILLE [pseud. of DESLAURIERS, Nicolas?] (1575?-1634?).

Facecieuses paradoxes de Bruscambille, & autres discours Comiques.

Rouen: [David Ferrand for] Thomas Maillard, 1615.

Price: $2,800.00

Law clerks after hours

COQUILLART, Guillaume (1452-1510).

Les Oeuvres.

Lyon: Benoist Rigaud, 1579.

Price: $7,800.00

Where women writers lurked

JANET, Louis, publisher.

Hommage aux dames. — Souvenirs et pensées.

Paris: (Richomme for) Louis Janet, [1820 /1821].

Price: $800.00

Sharpening young tongues

PROVERBS – NUCERIN [Jean GILLES de Noyers].

Proverbes commvns, et belles sentences pour familierement parler Latin & Francois a tous propos.

Paris: Pierre Ménier II, [ca. 1605].

Price: $3,800.00

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