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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

España: MÁXTOR EDITORIAL. RUSTICA. Nuevo/Nuevo.

Leiden: Elsevier, 1660. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Fair Condition. First Elsevier edition, full vellum, inner hinge cracked and text block pulled away from binding, old notes to title and a few spots elsewhere; lacking the frontis and portraits but textually complete. 452pp plus index. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Women & Feminism. Inventory No: 045342.

Paris, Par la Compagnie des Libraires du Palais, Par la Compagnie des Libraires du Palais, 1663. 12mo (15,5x9 cm). Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments (gilt faded, title illegible), with ribbons ( small tear in first hinge, top spine damaged). Frontispice, 110, 309, (iii) pp. (Première Partie) and (ii),251, (xv) pp. (mentioned "Seconde Partie"). With, besides the frontispice, 20 other full page engraved plates by Claude Vignon in text of strong female heroes of Pagan, Jewish or Christian origin. - Debore, Jahel, Judith, Panthée, Salomone, Zenobie, Lucrèce, Arrie, Isabelle, La Pucelle, Marie Stuart, etc. - Acceptable copy, title soiled, endpapers renewed, several convent-stamps verso frontispice and title. - This edition is rare.

Paris: Claude Barbin, 1661. 12mo, pp. [110], 309, [3]; 251, [16], [4]; with genuine blank [N12] at the end of vol. I and the 2 leaves of preliminaries for vol. II bound in at the back; extra engraved title-p., and 20 full-page engraved portraits of women by Claude Vignon; woodcut ornaments and initials; leaf e3 with marginal tear; all else about fine in an attractive full crimson morocco binding of the 19th century, a.e.g., gilt lettered direct on spine. "In 1647, La Gallerie des Femmes fortes by the Jesuit Pierre Le Moyne, the admired court poet, was published by Antoine de Sommaville. Dedicated to Anne of Austria, the work is composed of twenty chapters, written in both verse and prose, celebrating notable women of Jewish, Christian, and Pagan origin...In these beautiful engravings of women, we find in our artist the profound sense of taste for the heroines, filled with grace, passion, and melodrama" (Pacht-Bassani). The portraits include Salome, Artemise, Lucrece, Jeanne d'Arc, and a dramatic… Read More