![Livre de Compte de Mademoiselle Alexandrine Lambert [compiled in part by her brother Auguste Lambert], Commencé le 1e Novembre 1828. Alexandrine ACCOUNT BOOK – LAMBERT.](/pictures/thumb/2834.JPG?v=1492296816)
Livre de Compte de Mademoiselle Alexandrine Lambert [compiled in part by her brother Auguste Lambert], Commencé le 1e Novembre 1828. [France], 1828-1833.
4to (216 x 170 mm). Manuscript account book, 38 pages text in a notebook numbered in manuscript to 211 pp. of which all but the following pages remain blank: 2-3, 6-9, 12 [one line], 15-23, 101-105, 119-121, 130-131, 140-141, 150-151, 160-161, 170-171, 181, 183, 185-186. The first page (p. “2”)... More
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
Serto di fiori ascrei al valore di Carolina Rinaldi, prima ballerina. Macerata: Francesco Mancini, 1812.
12mo (185 x 115 mm). 24 pp. Outline engraved plate of Rinaldi dancing. Last quire detached, some light foxing. Plain wrappers. Provenance: Napoleonic(?) blindstamp on title (at center a crowned eagle, the words Stampa e libr mu[s?]ene visible, the stamp cropped).*** Ephemeral collection of verses in honor of a ballerina who... 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
Vive Jesus: Responses de notre tres-honoree et digne mere Ieanne Françoise Fremiot. Sur les Regles, Constitutions & Coustumier de nostre Ordre de la Visitation Sainte Marie. Paris: [s.n.], 1665.
12mo (157 x 90 mm). [4], 624, 108 (recte 116) pp. Shoulder notes, woodcut and typographic headpieces, woodcut initials. Ruled in red throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled black goatskin, sides with fillet and roulette border, spine compartments decorated with arabesque and leafy spray tools, comb-marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled dark brown, pair of... More
Eloge de la méchante femme, Dédié à Mademoiselle Honesta. Paris: Antoine de Heuqueville, 1731.
12mo (156 x 87 mm). [8], 49, [1] pp., 1 blank leaf. Woodcut title vignette, headpieces and initials. Offsetting of a title-page from a different work on verso of final blank leaf (see below). A few leaves browned. Early 19th-century French speckled calf, gilt Greek key border roll, spine gold-tooled... 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
De l'education des filles. Paris: chez Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1807.
18mo. [8], 204 pp., plus two publisher’s lists at end, [4] pp. and 6 pp. Printer’s woodcut device on title. Contemporary mottled calf, covers with gold-tooled border, smooth spine gold-tooled, green calf gilt lettering piece (joints and spine rubbed).*** Classic treatise on the education of women, a finely printed edition by... 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
I doveri dello stato coniugale. Canto. Lucca: Giovanni Riccomini, 1767.
8vo (203 x 135). 32 pp. Italic type (dedication in a large roman font). Engraved title vignette (cupid with garland seated on sea creature); two woodcut pictorial initials, head- and tail-pieces with putti and arabesques. Small marginal thumbprint to title, else fine; a pretty copy. Contemporary Dutch-gilt paper of a.... 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
Les vrais pourtraits de quelques unes des plus grandes dames de la chrestiente, desguisees en bergeres. / Ware Afbeeldinghe van eenige der Aldergrootste ende Doorluchtigste Vrouwen van heel Christenrijck, vertoont in gedaente als Herderinnen. Amsterdam: J. Broersz. for the author, 1640.
Small oblong 4to (134 x 181 mm). 4 parts in one, separately titled. [56] leaves, of which 38 leaves with engravings; without the poem in Italian sometimes appended at the end. Titles and text in French and Dutch. Engraved frontispiece (with title Le Bouquet des bergers), 36 full-page engravings containing... More
![La callipédie, traduite du poème latin. [Trans. by Charles-Philippe de Monthenault d'Egly (1696-1749)]. Claude QUILLET.](/pictures/thumb/2139.jpg?v=1464322901)
La callipédie, traduite du poème latin. [Trans. by Charles-Philippe de Monthenault d'Egly (1696-1749)]. Amsterdam & se vend a Paris: chez Durand & Pissot, 1749.
8vo (165 x 102 mm.). [1] f., 203 pp. The French prose translation printed in roman type on versos facing the Latin poem, in italic type, on rectos. Occasional slight paper discoloration, overall a nice copy. Contemporary French mottled calf, smooth spine gold-tooled with red morocco gilt lettering-piece, edges red-stained... 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