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Rosalind, a Pastoral. To the Memory of the Right Honourable the Countess Granville

Rosalind, a Pastoral. To the Memory of the Right Honourable the Countess Granville by [Fermor, Lady Sophia]; Anonymous

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Rosalind, a Pastoral. To the Memory of the Right Honourable the Countess Granville
Author
[Fermor, Lady Sophia]; Anonymous
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Printed for M. Cooper in Pater-Noster Row, 1745. First edition. Fine. Recent marbled card wrappers. Bookplate of J.O. Edwards to front pastedown. Folio measuring 195 x 310mm and collating 7, [1]: complete. Pro-Patria watermark as called for. Internally a wide margined and fresh copy, with a slight central fold across the title page and small paper repair to the inner margin of same page not affecting text. An exceedingly scarce work in praise of a woman who generated feminist shockwaves in her all too brief life, ESTC lists only five known copies. It has never before appeared at auction, and the present is the only one on the market. An anonymous poetical tribute to the Lady Sophia Fermor, whose writing had already placed her among England's intellectual elite and whose two years' marriage to John Certeret, second Earl Granville additionally placed her within London's political power center before her early death at age 24. Hailed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as having "few equals in beauty or graces" (ODNB), she was also the thinly veiled author of the revolutionary feminist tract Woman Not Inferior to Man, or A Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair Sext to a Perfect Equality of Power (1739). Released before her marriage with the by-line of "Sophia, a Person of Quality" and predating Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman by nearly half a century, the book was a sensation. Pointing to unequal access to education and unfair treatment under the law as the only reasons for women's cultural inferiority, Lady Sophia "exhorted all my sex...to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds and...shew our selves worthy...Let us shew them, by what little we do without aid of education, the much we might do if they did us justice" (Woman Not Inferior). Her marriage was a companionate and loving one, both gossiped about and admired. And her loss to puerperal fever in 1745 was felt widely. The present work was a tribute to Lady Sophia's irreplaceability. Though on the surface fixated on her external beauty, the verses constantly recall women of Ovid and Shakespeare whose uniqueness stemmed from their interior strength and their ability to move others to action. The pastoral emphasis and the name Rosalind immediately evoke Shakespeare's headstrong and outspoken heroine from As You Like It, who escaped the injustices of men by dressing and acting as one to protect herself and her best friend. In the poem, Rosalind's disappearance to the land of the shades, away from her husband Albino's gaze, references Eurydice whose life and death inspired Orpheus' powerful songs. And the narrator's pleas for owls and nightingales to quiet themselves harken to stories of female anger and revenge (notably Philomela, who surived brutality to take her vengeance). The result is something more learned and serious, a celebration of a complex woman who could have given more if only she had more time. ESTC T45227. Fine.
Fine etching, drypoint, and aquatint entitled "Teutophone: Souvenir d'Huningue 92." By French artist Louis Legrand (1863-1941)

Fine etching, drypoint, and aquatint entitled "Teutophone: Souvenir d'Huningue 92." By French artist Louis Legrand (1863-1941) by [TUBA]

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Title
Fine etching, drypoint, and aquatint entitled "Teutophone: Souvenir d'Huningue 92." By French artist Louis Legrand (1863-1941)
Creator
[TUBA]
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
[Paris], 1892. 278 x 245 mm. + wide margins, sheet size 482 x 320 mm. Printed on simili-japon. a fine impression. The instrument depicted is possibly an E-flat tenor horn rather than a tuba. A young girl carries a very large beer stein in the foreground. Legrand , a contemporary of both Toulouse Lautrec and Félicien Rops, is known for his etchings depicting Parisian life, particularly dancers.
Lettres Choisies

Lettres Choisies by BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de

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Lettres Choisies
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BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Modern ink gift inscription on verso of title, lacks front free endpaper
Description
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1656. Modern ink gift inscription on verso of title, lacks front free endpaper. 12mo. 404pp. Engraved title. Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering on spine. Provenance: Princes of Liechtenstein (bookplate). Willems 1193; Copinger 186; Brunet I, 633; Berghman 1408; Berghman Supplement 332; Rahir 1216; Tchemerzine I, 427.
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Thorgersen Hosiery Co. Thoro-Test Trade Catalogue; Leading Styles for Fall and Winter 1937

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Title
Thorgersen Hosiery Co. Thoro-Test Trade Catalogue; Leading Styles for Fall and Winter 1937
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Description
Chicago, 1937. 4to. 11 by 8.5 inches, wraps, 32 pp. featuring robes, sweaters, pajamas, nightgowns, bloomers, brassieres, briefs, ties, shirts, mufflers, stockings, socks, etc. with many fabric samples pasted in and intact in this copy. A clean and tight copy.
THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS. ESSAYS AND OTHER LUMBER

THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS. ESSAYS AND OTHER LUMBER by Baker, Nicholson

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Title
THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS. ESSAYS AND OTHER LUMBER
Author
Baker, Nicholson
Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780679439325
Condition
Fine
Description
NY: Random House, 1996. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Baker on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Viera Da Silva: Recent Oil Paintings. Exhibition Catalogue, March 1st to March 26th 1966

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Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA
Title
Viera Da Silva: Recent Oil Paintings. Exhibition Catalogue, March 1st to March 26th 1966
Seller
Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: M. Knoedler & Co, 1966. 27p., 23 plates (of which 3 are colored), original stiff wrappers. Ink annotation on t.p.: "Portuguese woman artist who lives mostly in France.
Announcement of Frederic W. Goudy Lecture

Announcement of Frederic W. Goudy Lecture

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Announcement of Frederic W. Goudy Lecture
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
(Claremong, CA: Scripps College), 1996. Goudy, Frederic W.. broadside (8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches). Announcement of the Frederic W. Goudy lecture on the Book Arts, October 5, 1996 by papermaker Cal Ling.
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History of Saint John's Episcopal Church, Winnsboro, South Carolina, 1839-1989 by Avery, Sharon Goff

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Title
History of Saint John's Episcopal Church, Winnsboro, South Carolina, 1839-1989
Author
Avery, Sharon Goff
Seller
Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN
9780871524874
Condition
Very Good
Description
Reprint Company, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x7x1. 1994 edition. Dust jacket is very good with minimal wear. Blue cloth boards and binding are very good. Page edges are clean. Front endpaper has been torn out. A few pages have underlining or notations in blue pen. LO

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