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~ The classic text on women’s liberation ~
926 WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary
- A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political
and moral subjects. [Vol. 1., all published]. London, J. Johnson, 1792, 8vo, later quarter brown calf
(corners rounded), gilt armorial supralibros on covers, gilt orn. flat spine (joints split., defect. at
head & tail), spr. edges, xix-[1 bl.]-452 pp. (fox. throughout, traces of use).
Cfr. ill.
€ 2500/4000
Rare 1st ed.
by the Anglo-Irish feminist, intellectual and writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797),
containing the classic text of women’s liberation. Dedicated to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-
Périgord in response on his 1791 report to the French National Assembly which stated that women
should only receive a domestic education. “She did not attack the institution of marriage or the
practice of religion. Instead, she argued for equality of education for both sexes and for state control
and co-education. It was a rational plea for a rational basis to the relation between both sexes (...)”
(Printing and the Mind of Man). Gilt supralibros Society of Writers to the Signet on covers.
Ref.
Printing and the Mind of Man, 242. COPAC. Bn-Opale plus.
927 WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary
- A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political
and moral subjects. Vol. 1 [all published]. The second edition. London, J. Johnson, 1792, 8vo, mod.
half calf, flat spine, red leather title label, xix-[1 bl.]-452 pp. (title and last p. somewhat brown.).
Good copy.
€ 1000/1200
2nd ed. (1st publ. the same year) by the Anglo-Irish feminist, intellectual and writer Mary
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), containing the classic text of women’s liberation. “She did not attack
the institution of marriage or the practice of religion. Instead, she argued for equality of education
for both sexes and for state control and co-education. It was a rational plea for a rational basis to the
relation between both sexes (...)” (Printing and the Mind of Man). With 1st pp. recomposed, without
errata at the end of the contents (the corrections are incorporated) and some textual changes,
bolstering the feminist claims in her argument. She changed some of her statements regarding
female and male difference to reflect a greater equality between the sexes.
Ref.
Cp. Printing and the
Mind of Man, 242. COPAC. Not in Bn-Opale plus.
RELIGIEUS TIN ~ ETAINS RELIGIEUX
928 [Bénitier]
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Grand bénitier de chevet en verre soufflé
pastillé, décor à la vénitienne, fin XVIIIe
s. - début XIXe s. Vasque mamelonnée sur gros bouton inférieur. Dosseret à branches avec décor
pastillé quadrillé, travaillé au fer et à la pince. L 24 cm, l max. 14 cm. Une restauration mineure au
bord de la vasque, sans perte. Bel exemple d’art populaire.
€ 200/250
929 [Plat de quête - Languedoc]
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Plat de quête de confrérie
, XVIIIe s. Au centre, une douille sur
laquelle s’emboîte une statuette amovible, qui représente l’évangéliste St Luc, un bœuf couché à ses
pieds. Diam. 25 cm.
€ 300/350
930 [Plat de quête - Languedoc]
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Plat de quête en étain, à bord mouluré
, XVIIIe s. Au centre, une
douille sur laquelle s’emboîte une statuette amovible représentant la Vierge et l’enfant Jésus. Diam.
23,5 cm.
€ 250/300
931 [Saintes Huiles]
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Boîte à Saintes Huiles à 3 compartiments
, XVIIIe s., de section quadrangulaire,
+/- 10,8 cm x 4,5 à 4,2 cm; pied large 12,2 x 6 cm, mouluré. Recouvert par un couvercle à double
pente à 4 faces, se terminant par une lame transversale ornée d’une petite plate-forme et d’une petite
lame pyramidale percée d’un trou. Inscription “1746” sur la face antérieure du couvercle; inscription
incisée à la main “A Conserver” sur sa face postérieure. 3 ampoules fermées par des bouchons
vissés surmontés d’une croix, elle-même vissée, prolongée par une spatule dans la burette. Initiales