Corpus Juris foeminini of Wetboek der vrouwen, handelende van den oorspronk der vrouwenregeering onder den keizer Heliogabalus [...].

8vo: [34]-228-[4] pp. (title underlaid, top half dampstained).

Old sp. boards, flat spine covered with paper. Good copy.

First ed. of this rare satirical treatise on the dangers of matriarchy and of women in power. At the end a 4-page stocklist of Steve van Esveldt (Amsterdam bookseller).
Ref. STCN 154072044. - Buisman 407.
Prov. Michiel Buisman (1891-1986), Dutch collector and author of "Populaire prozaschrijvers van 1600 tot 1815" (ms. entry dated 1960).
Joined: Spanheim, Friedrich - Histoire de la papesse Jeanne, fidèlement tirée de la dissertation latine de M. de Spanheim [...]. The Hague, Scheurleer, 1720. 2 vol., 12mo (some light browning, some foxing, sm. marg. hole at the bottom of the title of t.II). Contemp. calf (used, spl. joints, side and endpaper detached, turn in and bottom of a side missing, rubbed). 2nd augmented ed. of the transl. by the theologian Lenfant (1st Latin 1691). 1st issue of the 5 pl. (1 fold) representing the Popess's delivery, the famous close stool, etc. Ref. Barbier II:705. - Cohen 956. - BGL II:510. - Caillet 10290. - Cp. Dorbon III:4631 (other ed.). - STCN. Prov. Beilby Thompson père (+1750) or son (1742-1799), lords of Escrick (Yorkshire) (arm. bookpl.). (3 vol.)