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Why women are not human, or how to use the bible to prove your argument

[ACIDALIUS, Valens].
Disputatio perjucunda, qua anonymous probare nititur mulieres homines non esse: Cui opposita est SIMONIS  GEDICCI Defensio Sexus Muliebris.








Editio Secunda. 's-Gravenhage, I. Burchornius, 1641. 12mo. 19th century calf. 191, (1 blank) pp.

With:
2. Publius PORCIUS. Pugna Porcorum. (N.pl., no publ.), 1642. With woodcut on title. 44 pp.

3. CREPUNDIA Poëtica Somniata. (No pl., no publ.), 1642. With woodcut on title. 48 pp.

Ad 1: Second edition by Izaak Burchoorn at the Hague of a popular farce on the position of women in the discussions of  theologians, first published anonymously at Leipzig in 1595.  Valens Alcidalius satirically proves that women do not belong to the human species by applying a number of curious quotations to the argument, an amusing persiflage of theologians abusing the Scriptures. At the end a confutation of this proposition by a learned theologian, Simon Gedik, is added.
Ad 2-3: Popular neolatin facetious poetry, probably also published by Burchoorn at the Hague. The woodcut on the two titles is the same, showing a man with a basket with gardener's implements hanging from his neck walking with a little dog. This woodcut is also found on the title of "Nugae Venales", another collection of facetiae, which also includes "Pugna Porcorum", a poem with all words beginning with a "P", and "Poëtica Somniata", a poem with all lines starting with the following letter of the alphabet. Burchoorn, active at the Hague from about 1632 till 1656, mainly published chapbooks and pamphlets on contemporary political and religious issues.

Nice copies.- (Binding sl. rubbed, hinges weak).
Ad 1: Gay-Lemonnyer II, 6; ad 2-3: Gay-Lemonnyer III, 428 (added to "Nugae Venales").

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Education  Erotica  Popular Books  Women 

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