Live auction - Lot 805
[Women - "Querelle des femmes"]
2 works on the status of woman: 1 legal dissertation and 1 satire.
17th c
€ 180 / 250
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Lot description
1. Qu. Foemina non est homo [videbunt publice Francisc. Henr. Hoeltich, jur. doctor, & Johannes Casparus Waltz/ Hiltperthusio Francus, in Auditorio JCtorum, a.d. XIV. Decembris, anno 1672.] Wittenberg, Schrödter, [1675]. 4to (cut very short). Contemp. quarter leather (rubbed). Probably 2nd ed. of a 1672 Wittenberg legal dissertation on the status of women, defended under the Wittenberg law professor Höltich (1643-1676). Ref. VD17 3:628690C. - Krivatsy 5762. Prov. Contemp. Latin notes on flyleaves. - 2. [Acidalius, Valens] - Disputatio perjucunda, qua anonymus probare nititur Mulieres homines non esse. Cui opposita est Simonis Gedicci [...]. Defensio sexus miliebris [...]. The Hague, Burghoorn, 1641. 12mo (toned, wormtrack in top corner of final ff.). Contemp. vellum. Second ed. of this humanist satire on contemp. theologians and their interpretation of biblical passages about women, often ascribed to the German critic and poet Acidalius (1567-1595). Ref. STCN 139220453. - BGL II:6.