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Law - marriage - TAGEREAU, Vincent - Discours sur l’impuissance de l’homme et de la femme. Auquel est declaré, que c’est qu’impuissance empeschant & separant le marriage. Paris, N. Rousset (Roussel), 1611

Estimation : 300 / 300
Adjudication : Invendu
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8vo, mod. boards, [8]-191-[1] pp. (cut short sl. shaving printed marginalia of A3, paper age-toned, some spotting, sm. tears in margin of quire X). Good copy.   1st ed. of a treatise on the dissolution of marriage on account of sexual dysfunction (‘impotence’). The legal procedure, called “épreuve du congres” (from the Latin ‘congressus = intercourse’), was humiliating: the husband had to prove in public (before a jury consisting of lawyers, judges and witnesses) that he was able to fulfill the duties imposed by marriage. Woodcut mark on title. Old name on title. 
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