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A history of prostitution View picture(s) 1 BÉRAUD, F.F.A. Les Filles Publiques de Paris, et la police qui les régit. Paris, Leipzig, Chez Desforges et Compagnie, 1839. 2 vols. 19th century orange cloth, with black title-labels. VI, 260, (1, 1 blank); 327, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Paris  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In defense of the lady of the Renaissance; feminism in the 16th century View picture(s) 2 BRUNI, Domenico. Opera di M. Domenico Bruni da Pistoia intitolata Difese delle donne, nella quale si contengano le difese loro, dalle calumnie dategli per gli scrittori, & insieme le lodi di quelle. Nuovamente posta in luce. Florence, (colophon: Giunti), 1552. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10.2 cm). 19th-century red half morocco, gilt and ribbed spine, blue edges. With woodcut printer's device on title and verso colophon, woodcut initials. [1], 2-86, [1= colophon] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cultural History  Italy  Social Science  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The dedication copy to the Duchesse d'Angoulême of a very rare educational work View picture(s) 3 GALLAND, P.J. Cours pratique d'éducation à l'usage des jeunes demoiselles, et convenable aux jeunes gens qui ne sont pas à porté de suivre les études de collège, ou qui les ont suivies sans succès; contenant la grammaire, précédée de principes de lecture servant d'introduction; la rhétorique, l'arithmétique, la cosmographie, la géographie, l'histoire et la mythologie, traitée séparément pour l'enfance et pour l'adolescence, par demandes et par réponses. Dédié à Son Altesse Royale Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulême.  Paris, Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie, chez l'Auteur, 1816 (vol. 3!)-1817. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemp. full-grained green morocco, spines gilt, with richly gilt borders on sides and the large gilt crowned coat- of-arms of the Duchesse d'Angoulême (double French Royal arms, each with three fleur-de-lis) in centre, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., pink silk endpapers. With 3 titles set within typographical borders, large folding engraved map of France in 1816 by Hérisson, large folding synoptical table of French grammar, numerous arithmetical sums and figures in text, and astronomical and cosmographical figures on 3 full-page engraved plates. (4), 515, (1); 552, (2); 492, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Education  France  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Among the earliest examples of a publisher's cloth binding View picture(s) 4 GLATZ, Jacob. Iduna, een Zedekundig Leesboek voor Jonge Jufvrouwen. Tweede druk. Amst., G.J.A. Beijerinck, (ca. 1830). 2 vols. Sm.8vo. Orig. cloth, spines gilt-titled, sides decoratively blind-stamped. With 2 lithographed titles and 4 fine lithographed plates by Elizabeth Schmetterling. (4), 250; (2), 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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What women need to know View picture(s) 5 MEERTEN-SCHILPEROORT, Anna Barbara van. Penélopé, of Maandwerk aan het Vrouwelijk Geslacht toegewijd. Bevattende: De Beschrijving en Afbeelding van allerhande soorten van Vrouwelijke Handwerken, benevens eenige Lektuur, over Onderwerpen uit den vrouwelijken Kring. Amst., G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1821. Contemp. half calf. With illustration on engraved title by P. Velyn after G. Kruseman, and 24 finely coloured engraved aquatint  plates, 12 folding, by A. Lutz after G. Borsteegh. VIII, XX, 192, 327 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Periodicals  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare first edition of Crispijn de Passe's portraits of courtesans View picture(s) 6 PASSE the YOUNGER, Crispijn de. Miroir des plus belles courtisanes de ce temps. Spigel der Alderschoonste courtisanen deses tyts. The loocking glass of the fairest courtiers of these tymes. (Utrecht?), Crispijn de Passe the elder, 1630. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With an engraved title (111 x 151 mm.) of an interior with a man sitting at the fire and smoking a pipe, a woman showing him the portrait of a lady; in the background a couple  is looking at framed pictures of ladies. The title, in French, Dutch and English is engraved on the table-cover, and 40 unnumbered portraits of one man and 39 women in ovals (each ca. 80 x 60 mm.), two on a page with French verses printed underneath (4 lines). Nrs. 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 11/12, 15/16, 19/20: 2 separate plates on a page, the others two portraits on one plate (Franken lists only 3/4, 11/12, 15/16 and 19/20 as printed from two separate plates). Printed half-title, engraved title, and 20 lvs with 40 portraits. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Netherlands  Portraits  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A young lady's treasure View picture(s) 7 POWER, Miss. The Keepsake 1851. London, David Bogue, 1851. Large 8vo. Original red cloth, spine and frontcover fully covered with  gilt decoration, backcover decoratively blind stamped, g.e. With illustration on steelengraved title, separate printed title, and 12 full-page steelengraved plates with romantic scenes, portraits and a London view showing the Opening of the Coal Exchange by His Royal Highness Prince Albert, by Fred. A. Heath a.o. after contemporary artists. VI, (2), 272 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  English  Literature  Poetry  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Autobiography by the most learned woman of the Dutch Golden Age View picture(s) 8 SCHURMAN, Anna Maria van. Eucleria, of uitkiezing van het beste deel. Waar in vertoont wert een kort begrip van haar leven, als mede veel hooft-stukken van den godsdienst grondig werden verklaart. Van haar Ed. in 't Latijn geschreven, en nu in 't Newderduits vertaalt. Amsterdam, Jacob vande Velde, 1684. 12mo. Contemporary plain vellum; spine lettered in ink. [10], 343, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Biography  Dutch  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Advising an early marriage View picture(s) 9 VERGENOEGDE, Petrus de. De tien delicatessen des huwelyks: of de wederlegging van de tien vermakelykheden des huwelyks door Petrus de Vergenoegde. getrouwde. Nevens een St. Nikolaas Avond, en een berigt dat het raadsaam is te trouwen. Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1678. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. Engraved frontispiece and 10 full-page engravings. (8), 160, 45 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Erotica  Satire  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Why women are not human, or how to use the bible to prove your argument View picture(s) 10 [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. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Education  Erotica  Popular Books  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Four popular works, erotic as well as occult, bound contemporarily in one volume View picture(s) 11 [COURTIN, Antoine DE]. Traité de la jalousie, ou moyens d'entretenir la paix dans le marriage. Jouxte la copie imprimée. Paris (= Utrecht), Helie Josset (= Elzevier), 1682. 12mo. Contemporary calf. With fine engraved frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe. (12), 168, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Courtesy Books  Erotica  Literature  Occult  Occult Sciences  Popular Books  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous letters, full of contemporary news and gossip on the city of Utrecht View picture(s) 12 [DUNOYER, Anne-Marguerite PETIT]. Lettres historiques et galantes, de deux dames de condition, dont l'une étoit à Paris, & l'autre en Province. Ouvrage curieux. Où l'on trouve les plans & la description de la ville d'Utrecht; une rélation de  ce qui s'y est passé de plus particulier pendant la  tenuë du congrès; avec les armes de tous les ambassadeurs. Cologne (= Amsterdam), Pierre Marteau, 1713. Small 8vo. Original vellum. With woodcut publisher's monogram on title, richly  engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding plan and folding view of Utrecht, and 12 full-page engraved plates with the coats-of-arms of the delegates to the Peace Conference, held at Utrecht in 1713. (12), 468 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Courtesy Books  Erotica  Politics  Popular Books  Utrecht  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A rare collection of facetiae View picture(s) 13 [FACETIAE]. Les Ecosseuses ou les oeufs de Pasques. Troyes, Chez la Veuve Oudot, 1745. Small 8vo. Contemporary dark green morocco, spine richly gilt, with red title-label, double gilt fillet borders on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With woodcut frontispiece printed in golden green, showing two girls at work sitting opposite each other, by Comte de Caylus after design by De Boucher, woodcut vignette of crossed beans also printed in golden green on title, title partly printed in golden green, and a second separate printed title, dated 1739. (4), 172 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  French  Popular Books  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Behind the scenes of an international peace conference: erotic scandals and other gossip View picture(s) 14 [FRESCHOT, Casimir]. Histoire amoureuse & badine du Congres & de la Ville d'Utrecht, en plusieurs lettres écrites par le domestique d'un des plenipotentiares à un de ses amis. Liege, Jacob le Doux, (1713). 12mo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, and title printed in red and black. (8), 292 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  French  Popular Books  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The fashion of 1848 View picture(s) 15 [PERIODICAL]. Le tresor des Demoiselles. 1848. (Paris, 1848). Large 8vo. Contemp. half cloth, with green title-label on spine. With 6 full-page handcoloured lithographed costume-plates on strong paper, 7 handcoloured lithographed plates on thinner paper with costume-accessories and detail-illustrations, and 9 large, several times folded plates on thinner yellow or white  paper, with patterns for dresses, and models for needlework. pp. 193-384 Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  French  Needlework  Periodicals  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Whether it is wise to marry View picture(s) 16 [SWEERTS, Hieronymus]. De tien vermakelikheden des houwelyks. Spotsgewijze  beschreven door Hippolytus de Vrye, weduwnaar. Nevens  Het Huw'lijks Doolhof, van I. de Mol, en een Bericht, of 't raadsaam is te trouwen. Den tweeden druk. Vermeerdert, verbetert, en met nieuwe kopere platen verçiert. Amsterdam, Hier. Sweerts, 1678. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Old boards. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 10 full-page engraved plates in the main work. 172; 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Courtesy Books  Dutch  Erotica  Popular Books  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare German translation of a description of 17th-century prostitution in Amsterdam View picture(s) 17 [VRIES, Simon de]. Das Amsterdamer Huren-Leben, enthält die listigen Streiche und Schelmereyen, derer sich die Huren und Huren-Wirthe bedienen, nebst ihrer Art zu leben, abgeschmackten und abergläubischen Possen, mit einem Worte : alles, was bey diesem saubern Pack und Mademoisellen im Gebrauch ist, und im Schwange gehet. Zur Warnung und Abschreckung aus dem Holländischen ins Deutsche übersetzt. Leyden (= Sorau, Gottlob Hebold, 1754). Sm. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum, boards covered with marbled paper. With engraved frontispiece from one of the Dutch editions (t Amsterdamsch Hoerdom') cut and mounted on blank leaf, woodcut head- and end-piece, curious woodcut initials. 201, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Erotica  German  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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