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Exhibitor

Don Quichot
Imstenrade 63
5655 BM Eindhoven
Netherlands

Contact

Leo Smiet

Phone

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Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes
Jacques Olivier Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes. Reueu, corrigé et augmenté d'un friant dessert et de plusieurs histoires pour les courtisans & partisans de la femme mondaine.
Rouen, Pierre du Puys 1634, 12°, 431, 24 pp., with engraved title vignette. Half leather (NEW) binding with marbled paper. Title page a bit dingy, some pages missing small piece of paper (not text). 2 ex libris (1 armorial).
Early and rare edition of the work, which was first published anonymously in Paris in 1617. This repeatedly published misogynistic pamphlet provoked a large number of counter-writings, including a reply by Margaret of Valois.

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