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
Le plaisant livre de noble Jehan Boccace, poète florentin, auquel il traite des faits et gestes des illustres célèbres dames. Paris: Philippe Le Noir [and Guillaume Le Bret], 4 March 1538 [1539 N.S.].
8vo (144 x 85 mm). [8], 196 leaves. Title printed in red and black. Bâtarde type. Small typographic pointing hands used in text throughout. Half-page woodcut opening text of an author presenting his book to a seated dignitary, with reserved space for letterpress name, here “Jehan bocasse”; a variety of... 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
Eloge des paysans. Aux paysans. Paris: [Antoine de Heuqueville for] Pierre Morisset, 1731.
12mo (141 x 75 mm). [12], 81, [1] pp. Woodcut title ornament, headpieces by Vincent Le Sueur (signed Vi L S) and initials. 18th-century calf, smooth spine gold-tooled, red morocco lettering-piece, edges red-stained (wear to extremities, covers rubbed). *** First Edition of a social satire of the privileged classes. The preface... 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
Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris apocalipsis et biblianis cum triumphis cesaris. [Paris]: Simon Vostre, [ca. 1508].
Printed on paper. 4to in 8s (249 x 167 mm ). Collation: A-E8 F2 G6 H-N8 O6. [102] leaves. Batarde type 98, 29/31 lines. Title in four lines below large metalcut Vostre device (Renouard 1105), within a metalcut border; Anatomical man metalcut within an architectural border; 26 large metalcuts of... 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
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
Estreine de Pierrot a Margot. Paris: [for] Pierre Ménier, portier de la porte Sainct Victor, 1615.
8vo (170 x 107 mm). Collation: A-D4. [32] pp. Woodcut vignettes on title and on final page, passe-partout “Fin” cartouche and initial, typographic initial and head-piece. Very worn and softened, a few finger-stains, leaves detached; disbound and unsewn. Provenance: the number 47 in early ink at foot of title; last... More
Dictionnaire des femmes des Cinq parties du monde. Europe. 1ere Partie. 3eme division. [France, 1833?].
Manuscript on paper, 4to (212 x 165 mm). [272] pages, including 3 blank leaves (1, 37, and 136), written on rectos and versos in a legible cursive hand in brown ink, mostly 24-25 lines. A draft, with many crossings out and additions. The date 1833 (apparently in a different hand)... More