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Almahide, or the Captive Queen. An Excellent New Romance, Never before in English. The whole Work…

A MOORISH ROMANCE FOR THE RESTORATION. Folio [31 x 19.5 cm]. 4 parts in 1. (4), 225pp, (1); 267 pp, (1); 107 pp, (1), 76 pp. Bound in full 18th century calf with gilt-and-red title label on spine; ...

Published by: John Macock for Thomas Dring, London, 1677
US$ 2,500.00
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La Limosnera de Dios. Relacion Historica de la Vida, y Virtudes de la Excelentissima Señora Doña Magdalena de Ulloa Toledo Ossorio y Quiñones… ...

THE SPANISH WIDOW WHO BECAME AN HONORARY JESUIT. NO COPY IN AUCTION RECORDS; THE SECOND COPY IN AMERICA. 4to. (24), 464 pp, (16). Bound in contemporary sheep (quite rubbed) with later gilt-and-red ...

Published by: Francisco Garcia Onorato, Salamanca, 1723
US$ 2,500.00
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De Geestelyke Don Quichot, of het Zomer-Reisje van Geoffroy Wildgoose; door Smollet. Uit het Engelsch vertaald, door E. Bekker…

AN ENGLISH SATIRE ON CERVANTES, TRANSLATED WITH A PREFACE BY ELIZABETH WOLFF. Large 8vo [21.2 x 12.5 cm], 3 parts in 1. (5), VIII-XXVIII pp, 262 pp; (4), 216 pp; (4), 254 pp. Bound in late 19th ...

Published by: Isaac van Cleef, The Hague, 1798-1799
US$ 1,250.00
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Vita della Venerabile Serva di Dio Giovanna Maria Battista Solimani, Fondatrice dell' Ordine delle Monache Romite, e della Congregazione de' Sacerdoti ...

A LAVISH VITA OF A GENOESE NUN. Folio [29 x 20.5 cm]. (12), 304 pp, plus engraved frontispiece (often lacking!) signed ‘Guidotti’, depicting the nun in the act of writing, quill in hand. Bound ...

Published by: Casamara, Genoa, 1787
US$ 1,850.00
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La Vie de Soeur Marguerite du S. Sacrement, Religieuse Carmelite du Monastere de Beaune

FIRST EDITION OF THE LIFE OF A STIGMATIC NUN, NEVER BEATIFIED. Thick 8vo. (40), 744 pp, (12). Bound in contemporary calf; rebacked at an early date, with remains of original spine laid on. ...

Published by: Petit, Paris, 1654
US$ 1,650.00
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Intera Narrazione della Vita, Costumi, e Intelligenze Spirituali della Venerabile Sposa di Gesù, Suor Domenica dal Paradiso, Fondatrice del Monastero della ...

SAVONAROLA MEETS HIS MATCH. Large 4to. [27 x 20.5 cm]. (2), 3-495, (1), plus engr. frontispiece signed C[arlo]. Gregori after G[iuseppe]. Menabuoni, dated 1745. [Bound with:] Intera Narrazione… ...

Published by: Michele Nestenus & Francesco Moucke, Florence, 1719-1802
US$ 2,250.00
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Les Jeunes Artistes, Contes. Léon le Jeune Graveur. Valérie la Jeune Artiste Peintre. Prosper le Jeune Sculpteur. Emmeline la Jeune Musicienne. Quatrième ...

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG WOMAN. 8vo. (4), 384 pp, plus steel-engr. frontispiece and three further plates, each with original tissue guard. Including divisional half-titles. Bound in ...

Published by: Didier, Paris, 1854
US$ 450.00
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Ehret die Frauen. MDCCCXXXVIII.

A RARE LONDON-PRINTED GERMAN ANNUAL, BY THE JEWISH PURVEYOR OF GERMAN BOOKS FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Sm 4to. [20 x 13.5]. (40) pp, plus engr. frontispiece and 17 [of 18?] stipple-engraved, ...

Published by: Abraham Asher & Co., Fleet Street, London, 1838
US$ 550.00
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Satires et Diatribes sur les Femmes, l'Amour et le Marriage. Avec une Réfutation.

8vo. [17 x 10.5 cm]. (4), 282 pp, (2). Bound in late 19th century quarter-calf over marbled boards, with gilt title on spine. Ex-libris of Daniel Berditchevsky. A beautifully fresh copy, edges ...

Published by: Adolphe Delahays, Paris, 1860
US$ 25.00
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Giannina di Manchester… Traduzione dal Francese.

"UNRECORDED IN OCLC/COPAC: THE ADVENTURES OF LADY MANCHESTER. 12mo [13.8 x 9 cm]. 107 pp, (1); 83 pp, (1); 105 pp, (1), plus engr. frontispiece. Bound in contemporary quarter brown calf over ...

Published by: Giovacchino Pagani , Florence, 1814
US$ 450.00
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Oraison Funebre de Treshaulte et Vertueuse Princesse Marie Isabeau de France, Fille de Tres-hault & Treschrestien Roy Charles. ix. amateur de toute Vertu, & ...

Small 4to (160 x 105 mm). 19 ff., plus 1 integral blank, signed A-E4. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page. Bound in late 19th century marbled boards with gilt title label on spine. Slightly ...

, Paris, Guillaume Chaudiere, 1578
US$ 950.00
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Lettere sugli Scritti e sul Carattere di G. G. Rousseau della Baronessa di Stael Holstein. Tradotte dal Francese. Con un discorso del Traduttore sullo ...

8vo. 192, (2) pp. (errata). Bound in contemporary boards with manuscript title label on spine; early ownership inscription on flyleaf. Light foxing to first few leaves, otherwise very good.

, Mendrisio, Landi, 1817
US$ 500.00
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Stanze e Canzoni.

8vo. (32) ff, signed A-D8. With elaborate woodcut border on title-page composed of 10 blocks, the uppermost signed 'G. B.', i.e. Girolamo Bellarmoto (1493-1555). 19th C patterned boards with ...

, Venice, Nicolo d'Aristotele detto Zopino, 1535
US$ 1,450.00
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Verdediging van Mejufvrouw Hendrica Johanna Christina Leurs, Kostschoolhouderesse te Utrecht, beschuldigd van het Vervaardigen van Valsche Bankbiljetten en ...

8vo. VIII, 67 pp. Bound in original printed wrappers. Wrappers chipped and toned at corners, with some loss to foot of spine. Ownership inscription on flyleaf of "J. de Vries" dated 15th Sept. ...

, Amsterdam, Groebe en Zweesaardt, 1837
US$ 450.00
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Liber de muliere forti […].

4to (135 x 193 mm). (160) ff. (signed aa-dd8; a-y8). With colophonic title-page on verso of y4. Bound in 16th or early 17th century gilt-ruled Spanish calf with gilt ornaments at corners and on ...

, Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 7 May 1499
US$ 12,500.00
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La St.-Simonienne

A FEMALE ST. SIMONIAN, MODELED ON THE LIFE OF CLAIRE DÉMAR. Large 8vo. [22 x 13.8 cm]. VIII pp, 487 pp, (1). Bound in contemporary half calf over speckled boards; gilt title on spine. Three ...

Published by: L. Tenré, Paris, 1833
US$ 850.00
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[Invitation to assist in the burial of Enfantin’s mother]

Folio [25.7 x 20.2 cm], on headed paper of the ‘Religion Saint-Simonienne’. Centrally creased in both directions from folding. Ephemerally-printed single leaf invitation (intended to be ...

, Paris, 22nd April 1832
US$ 150.00
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Vita della Marchesa Benedetta Clotilde Spinola, nata Lunelli di Cortemiglia

“ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL WORKS FOR THE STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE FIGURE OF BENEDETTA CLOTILDE LUNELLI” (ALACEVICH, P. 129). 8vo. (6), 7-30 pp, (2). Bound in later plain wrappers. Printed ...

Published by: Giacomo Fea, Torino, 1793
US$ 1,850.00
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La Comtesse de Salisbury ou l'ordre de la Jaretière. Nouvelle Historique. Premiere [- Seconde] Partie.

THE ORDER OF THE GARTER AND THE PREDATIONS OF EDWARD III; NO COMPLETE COPY IN US LIBRARIES. 12mo [13.5 x 8 cm]. (16), 175 pp, (1); (2), 160 pp, (2), including divisional title-page. Bound in 18th ...

Published by: Thomas Amaulry, Lyon, 1682
US$ 1,450.00
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Dissertation pour la Défense des deux Saintes Marie Madeleine et Marie de Bethanie, Soeur de Saint Lazare. Contre l’opinion de ceux qui les confondent & ...

A TRINITY OF MARYS: NO COPY IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES. 12mo. (4), 143 pp, (1). Bound in contemporary sheep with gilt emblems and title on spine. Binding rather rubbed; otherwise a fresh, ...

Published by: J. B. Nego et Pierre de Bats, Paris, 1685
US$ 1,450.00
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Les Fleurs du Bien Dire: Recueillies és [sic] cabinets des plus rares Esprits de ce temps, pour exprimer les passions amoureuses, tant de l’un comme de ...

A COLLECTION OF STYLE MANUALS, DEDICATED TO HUGUENOT PRINCESSES. Small 8vo. (6), 4-118 ff; (10), 156 pp; 42 ff. With separate title-pages for Les Marguerites Françoises, ou Seconde Partie des ...

Published by: “Jouxte la coppie imprimee à Saumur, par Pierre Colle”, Lyon, 1605-1606
US$ 2,450.00
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Les Lutins du Chateau de Kernosy. Nouvelle Historique. de Mad. la Comtesse de Murat. Nouvelle Édition. Revûë, corrigée & augmentée de deux Contes.

AN EARLY ‘GOTHIC’ NOVEL BY THE COMTESSE DE MURAT, WITH ADDITIONS BY MARGUERITE DE LUBERT. 12mo. 2 parts in 1. (1) ff, 188 pp; (1) ff, 212 pp. Bound in contemporary quarter calf with green ...

Published by: no printer, “A Leyde” [i.e. France?], 1753
US$ 1,650.00
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Lettere per i Cuori Sensibili che Giovanna Duplessi scrisse a Giustina Delandri.

Published by: Ferdinando Baret, Milan, 1815
US$ 1,450.00
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La Religiosa en Soledad. Obra en que se expone a las Religiosas el Modo de emplearse con Fruto, en los Exercicios Espirituales de San Ignacio de Loyola

LOYOLA’S SPIRITUAL EXERCISES FOR SPANISH NUNS: THE RARE FIRST EDITION, NO COPY IN US LIBRARIES. 4to. [18.5 x 13.5 cm]. (8), 340 pp, (4). Title-page within woodcut border. Early ownership ...

Published by: Francisco Mestre, Valencia, 1700
US$ 950.00
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Isabellæ Sanctæ, Elisabetha Joannis Bapt. mater, Elisabetha Andr. Regis Hung. filia, Isabella Regina Portugalliæ, Isabella, S. Lud. Galliæ Regis soror

THE SAINTLY ELIZABETHS, IN A CONTEMPORARY PRIZE BINDING OF THE ENGLISH COLLEGE OF LIÈGE? 8vo. (32) pp including terminal blank. With woodcut emblem on title and a handful of woodcut initials in ...

Published by: Jan Pepermans, Brussels, 1622
US$ 2,250.00
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Histoire chronologique d'Espagne, commencant a l'Origine des premiers Habitans du Pays et continuee jusqu'a Present

ANNE DE LA ROCHE-GUILHEN AS HISTORIAN; NO COPY IN US OR UK LIBRARIES. 3 vols in 3, 8vos. (4), 7-382 pp; (2), 3-420 [i.e. 400] pp; (2), 3-285 pp, (3) including terminal blank. Bound without leaf ...

Published by: Abraham Acher, Rotterdam, 1696
US$ 2,650.00
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Nuzlich und dem Frauen Zimmer sehr dienliche Hauß-Apotheck. Beschrieben im Jahr 1775.

4to (ca. 22 x 17 cm). German manuscript on paper. 24 pp. Contemporary wrappers with handwritten cover title.

, [Germany], 1775
US$ 1,450.00
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Les Femmes Démasquées, ou le vrai Remède d’Amour. Par M***. L’Ami du Vrai.

12mo. 107 pp, plus engraved frontispiece. Bound in contemporary purple wrappers; edges deckled and partially untrimmed, with some dog-earing; later marbled paper spine. Blank versos of ...

, Paris, Tiger, [ca. 1810?]
US$ 950.00
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Émilie ou la Jeune Fille Auteur. Ouvrage dédié aux jeunes Personnes

EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION. “THIS FIERY AND CONTENTIOUS WORK IS ESSENTIAL READING FOR STUDENTS OF WOMEN's WRITING IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE” (ALISON FINCH). 8vo. (4), 352 pp, plus added ...

Published by: Librairie d’Éducation de Didier, Paris, 1837
US$ 650.00
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Die wohlerfahrne Hamburger Köchin, oder Unterricht für ein junges Frauenzimmer, das ihre Küche selbst besorgen, und außer den gewöhnlichen Speisen, ...

THIRD RECORDED COPY of this cookbook for Saxon housewives – or rather particularly, according to the title-page, for young women “who have to care for their kitchen themselves, and besides the ...

Published by: Bechtold, Altona, Hamburg, & Leipzig, 1807
US$ 1,450.00
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La Cantatrice per Disgrazia, osia le Aventure della Marchesa N. N. Scritte da lei medesima.

“[CHIARI's INDEPENDENT AND RESOURCEFUL HEROINES… INTRODUCE A TYPE OF FEMALE CHARACTER QUITE NEW TO THE ITALIAN LITERARY CANON" (The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel). 8vos, 2 vols in ...

Published by: Pasinelli, Venice, 1755
US$ 1,650.00
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Petrarca. Ein Dramatisches Gedicht in Fünf Akten. Von der Verfasserin der Charlotte Corday

PETRARCH FOR THE GERMAN ROMANTICS. Large 8vo. (7), 6-324 pp, (4), plus stipple-engr. frontispiece and a further plate after p. 252 depicting the death of Laura. Bound in contemporary publisher’s ...

Published by: B. G. Hoffmann, Hamburg, 1806
US$ 950.00
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Vitae et icones sultanorum Turcicorum, principum Persarum aliorumque illustrium heroum heroinarumque ab Osmane usque ad Mahometem II.

HOEFNAGEL’S MASTERFUL PORTRAITS OF SULTANS AND SULTANAS, SOME FINISHED IN (CONTEMPORARY?) COLOR. 4to. 5 ff., 356 (i.e. 353) pp, (5) pp. Engraved title page and 47 full-page portrait engravings ...

Published by: Theodor de Bry, Frankfurt, 1596
US$ 18,500.00
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Bourignianism Detected: or the Delusions and Errors of Antonia Bourignon, and her Growing Sect. Which may also Serve for a Discovery of all other ...

TWO EARLY SCOTTISH ATTACKS ON THE 'GROWING SECT' OF ANTONIA BOURIGNON. 2 vols in 1, 4tos. [203 x 150 mm]. (4), 76 pp; (2), 61 pp, (1) p publisher’s advertisements. Bound in 19th century (?) ...

Published by: C. Brome…; W. Keblewhite…; and H. Hindmarsh…, London, 1698
US$ 1,250.00
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Un Coeur de Créole. Viola

THIRD RECORDED COPY OF A NOVEL SET IN GUADELOUPE. 8vo. (4), 166 pp, [1 integral blank], plus engr. frontispiece of the heroine baring her chest. Bound in contemporary quarter black morocco over ...

Published by: Ferdinand Sartorius, Paris, 1863
US$ 650.00
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Grammaire des Dames, Où l’on trouvera des principes sûrs & faciles… avec les moyens de connaitre les expressions provincials, de les éviter, & de ...

AVOIDING PROVINCIALISMS AND BAD PRONUNCIATION: HOW TO CORRECT FEMALE SPEECH AND WRITING. 8vo. xxxv pp, (1), 321 pp, (1), plus charming engraved frontispiece of a girls’ school classroom. Bound ...

Published by: Eugène Onfroy, Paris, 1785
US$ 1,450.00
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Maria Stella ou Échange Criminel d'une Demoiselle du Plus Haut Rang contre un Garçon de la Condition la Plus Vile. Se vend au profit des pauvres

THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE KING. 8vo. viii pp, 318 pp, plus lithographed frontispiece portrait (almost always lacking!). Bound in contemporary blind-ruled English calf with unidentified armorial ...

Published by: “chez les principaux Libraires”, 1830
US$ 950.00
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Recueil General des Caquets de l’Accouchée. Ou discours facecieux, où se voit les moeurs, actions, et façons de faire des grands et petits de ce ...

Small 4to. (3), 4-268 pp, (2), plus lithographed frontispiece. Bound in original publisher’s printed brown boards, skillfully rebacked with original spine laid on.

, [Metz, Lecouteux & Nouvian], “Imprimé au temps de ne se plus facher, 1625”, 1625 [i.e. 1846 or 1847]
US$ 450.00
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Valérie ou La Jeune Artiste

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG WOMAN. 12mo. [13.5 x 8.5 cm]. (4), 170 pp, (2), plus engr. frontispiece of a painting studio for girls, as well as added steel-engr. title-page printed in red ...

Published by: Didier, Paris, 1839
US$ 650.00
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Genius der Frauen, Wahrheit und Dichtung weiblicher Schoenheiten. Eine Reihe von Portraits aus Lord Byron’s Poetischen Werken, nach Original-Zeichungen, ...

LONDON-PRINTED BYRONIANA FOR GERMANS, WITH 5 MORE ENGRAVINGS THAN THE ENGLISH ORIGINAL. 4to. [23 x 16 cm]. (16) pp, (88) pp, interleaved with 44 tissue-guarded stipple-engraved plates of women, ...

Published by: Black and Armstrong, London & Leipzig, 1840
US$ 850.00
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Vida Abreviada de la Ven. Madre Soror Francisca Dorotea, Fundadora del Religiosissimo Convento de Dominicas Descalzas de Sevilla… De orden Superior, y à ...

A POCKET-SIZED BIOGRAPHY FOR DISCALCED DOMINICAN NUNS. Sm. 4to. (24), 165 [i.e. 145] pp, (7), plus engr. plate of 'Nuestra senora de los Reyes'. Pages 137-156 erroneously omitted in pagination, as ...

Published by: Juan Francisco Blas de Quesada, Seville, 1734
US$ 950.00
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A Manual of Heraldry for Amateurs

HERALDRY FOR LADIES. 8vo. [17.7 x 10.6 cm]. viii pp, 169 pp, (3), with hundreds of wood-engraved armorials in text. Bound in contemporary sheep. Spine a little chipped; one signature sitting a ...

Published by: William Pickering, London, 1828
US$ 850.00
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Historie om Conqueten af Mexico, eller Om Indtagelsen af det Nordlige America Bekiendt under Navnet af Nye Spanien…

THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO, FOR DANISH (FEMALE?) READERS. 8vos., 2 vols in 1. (32), 478 pp; (2), 518 pp, (10). Bound in contemporary calf with spine richly gilt, including remains of lettered title. ...

Published by: Andreas Hartwig, Copenhagen, 1747
US$ 2,450.00
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L'Americana Ramminga, cioè Memorie di Donna Innez di Quebrada. Scritte da lei stessa, ed ora pubblicate da M. G. di S., sua confidente Amica. Tomo Primo ...

ABDUCTED BY PIRATES IN CHILE, REUNITED WITH HER HUSBAND IN BOSTON: THE ADVENTURES OF DOÑA INNEZ DE QUEBRADA. 8vos., 2 vols in 1. IV pp, 132 pp; IV pp, 108 pp. Bound in contemporary English ...

Published by: Antonio Zatta, Venice, 1788
US$ 1,850.00
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