Le Calendrier de la Cour, tiré des Ephémerides ... Pour l’annee Mil sept cent trente-neuf. Imprimé pour la Famille Royale, et Maison de Sa Majesté. Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1739.
36mo (binding size 108 x 55 mm). [72] pp. (a single quire of 36 leaves, the first and last leaves mounted on the free endpapers and printed on visible sides only). Woodcut royal arms on title, 2 astronomical woodcuts, typographic moon symbols in calendar. Double rule page borders. Publisher’s case... More
![Degli uomini tali quali sono o come dovrebbero essere, opera di sentimento. [Translated by Orazio degli Arrighi Landini (1718-1755)]. Jean BLONDEL.](/pictures/thumb/2253.JPG?v=1517089083)
Degli uomini tali quali sono o come dovrebbero essere, opera di sentimento. [Translated by Orazio degli Arrighi Landini (1718-1755)]. Hamburg: [s.n.], 1759.
8vo (177 x 121 mm). 103 pp. Woodcut white-on-black title vignette (or printer’s device?) of 3 grotesque figures hammering on an anvil. Untrimmed. Printing flaw to p. 26, with beginnings of lines faintly printed. Light soiling to first text page and to a few deckle edges, small wormhole through upper... More
![Défenses du beau séxe [sic] ou Mémoires historiques, philosophiques et critiques, pour servir d'apologie aux femmes. Philippe Joseph CAFFIAUX.](/pictures/thumb/2148.jpg?v=1464322902)
Défenses du beau séxe [sic] ou Mémoires historiques, philosophiques et critiques, pour servir d'apologie aux femmes. “Amsterdam: aux dépens de la compagnie" [i.e., Paris: Charles ou Charles-Guillaume Le Clerc], 1753.
Four volumes in two, 12mo (165 x 95 mm). [2], xvi, 242; [2], xii, 268; [2], ix, [1 blank], 225, [1 blank]; [2], viii, 194 pp. Late 18th- or early 19th-century German half roan, sides covered in comb-marbled paper, red morocco gilt lettering-pieces on spine, edges stained red. Occasional light... More
Anecdotes sur la Comtesse Du Barry Paris: A. Quantin, 1880.
Bound with: LACROIX, Paul (1806-1843). An annotated proof sheet from his Catalogue des Livres de Madame du Barry (Paris: Auguste Fontaine, 1874). Large 8vo (263 x 173 mm). [2] leaves, XXXII, 288 pp., [1] leaf. Color-printed etched plate by and after W. Lalauze, title and justification printed in red and... More
Compendiöses Wirthschafts-Buch für Frauenzimmer. Quedlinburg: Friedrich Joseph Ernst, 1806.
8vo (171 x 105 mm). [iv], 107 pp. Contemporary brown speckled paper boards, edges sprinkled red.*** Only Edition of a methodical guide for the German lady of the house, with instructions on domestic and personal care from the pantry to the boudoir. 216 short chapters arranged by subject in twelve parts... More
Le Jardin de contemplation. (colophon:) Paris: Jean Petit, 25 October 1516.
8vo (134 x 90 mm). Collation: a-z8 et8 A-D8. [224] leaves, including final blank. Batarde types, 27 lines. Publisher’s woodcut device on title (not in Renouard), 8- and 4-line metalcut initials. Colophon printed in a cruciform X-shape. Title and last leaf stained, occasional small stains elsewhere, minor worming in lower... More
![La decoratio[n] Dhumaine nature et aornement des dames. Co[m]pile et extraict des tres excelle[nts] docteurs et pl[us] expers medecins ta[n]t anciens q[ue] modernes…. André LE FOURNIER, fl. 1518.](/pictures/thumb/2009.jpg?v=1464284620)
La decoratio[n] Dhumaine nature et aornement des dames. Co[m]pile et extraict des tres excelle[nts] docteurs et pl[us] expers medecins ta[n]t anciens q[ue] modernes… Lyon: Claude Veycellier, 1 March 1531.
8vo (133 x 90 mm). 50, [6] leaves. Bâtarde type. Title in red and black within woodcut border printed from four blocks, woodcut initials. Bound ca. 1830 in crimson polished calf, covers with double gilt fillet surrounding two blind roll-tooled borders, smooth spine gilt with title lettered longitudinally within decorative... More
Dissertatio historico-moralis De malis eruditorum uxoribus, (vulgo) Von der Gelehrten bösen Weibern. Leipzig: Johann Andreas Zschau, [1705].
4to (210 x 155 mm). [12] leaves. Roman, italic, Greek and Hebrew types. Woodcut initial and tailpieces, type ornament headpiece. 19th-century black buckram, title gold-lettered on upper cover. Provenance: from the Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek, Donaueschingen, inkstamp, shelfmark labels.*** The historical section of a dissertation defended at Leipzig on December 19, 1705, on... More
La Magdeleine. Tournai: Charles Martin, 1617.
8vo (150 x 98 mm). Engraved title, 746, [5] pp., [1] blank leaf. 2 engraved plates. Shoulder notes. Woodcut and typographic head- and tail-piece ornaments. Rust-stain in quire D, small stain or adhesion on fol. Tt3v affecting a couple of words, soiling to a page or two, else very good... More
![Amélie, roman de Mr Fiedling [sic, corrected in titles of parts 2 and 3], Traduit de l’Anglois Par Mdme Riccoboni. Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mézières RICCOBONI, – Henry FIELDING.](/pictures/thumb/2068.jpg?v=1464322897)
Amélie, roman de Mr Fiedling [sic, corrected in titles of parts 2 and 3], Traduit de l’Anglois Par Mdme Riccoboni. Paris: Brocas & Humblot, 1762.
3 vols. in one, 12mo (162 x 97 mm). [2] ll., 176 pp.; [2] ll., 208 pp.; [2] ll., 271 pp. Fine. Contemporary French mottled calf, flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering piece, edges stained red (foot of spine slightly chipped).*** First Edition of Mme. Riccoboni’s free adaptation of Fielding’s... More
Tractatus physiologicus de pulchritudine, Juxta ea quae de Sponsa in Canticis Canticorum mysticè pronunciantur. Brussels: Franciscus Foppens, 1662.
Small 8vo (154 x 86 mm). [8], 60, [1], [3 blank] pp. Line-engraved title vignette & 28 engraved illustrations in text, some two to a page, most of female busts, four of animals' heads, the last two showing full-length female figures including a saint next to a palm tree. Faint... More
Tooneel van de Mannelicke Achtbaerheyt, aen-gewesen in de Voor-sprake, teghen-sprake, ende uyt-sprake, gedaen over de weygheringhe van de Koninginne Vasthi. Middelburg: Jan van der Hellen for Jan Pieterss. van de Venne, 1622.
4to (233 x 176 mm). [16], 60, [19], [1 blank] pp. Large emblematic publisher’s mark on title-page, four half-page engraved illustrations, by Pieter de Jode (2), Pieter Serwouters, and Willem van der Passe after Adriaen van der Venne. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Title a bit soiled and with... More
De Vrouwen-Peirle, ofte dryvoudige historie van Helena de Verduldige, Griseldis de Zagtmoedige, en Florentina de Getrouwe... Ghent: J. Begyn, [ca. 1810].
4to (208 x 179 mm). 56 pp. 3 parts, separately titled. Black letter, double column. Each title with the same three woodcuts of the trio of heroines, 13 woodcuts in text, including two of the title cut; 5 small cuts in part 1 within ornamental borders (2 cuts printed as... More