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Oger - Blanchet

104 - SCUDÉRY, Mlle de — *Les Femmes illustres, or the Heroic Orations of Monsieur de Scudéry, with True Portraits of These Heroines, Drawn from Ancient Medals*. Paris: Antoine de Sommaville and Augustin Courbé, 1644. Quarto, frontispiece, (6) folios, 442 pages, (2) folios, 20 engraved portraits in the text, slight water stains, modern flexible vellum binding; endpapers missing.

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€250 - 300

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SCUDÉRY, Mlle de — *Les Femmes illustres, or the Heroic Orations of Monsieur de Scudéry, with True Portraits of These Heroines, Drawn from Ancient Medals*. Paris: Antoine de Sommaville and Augustin Courbé, 1644. Quarto, frontispiece, (6) folios, 442 pages, (2) folios, 20 engraved portraits in the text, slight water stains, modern flexible vellum binding; endpapers missing. Second edition not described by Tchémerzine. (See V, 770 for the first edition published in 1642). By Mademoiselle de Scudéry, who published this work under her brother’s name. A second part appeared in 1644.

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In Gratitude to Women in Literature—A Library Dedicated to Women's Literature
Tuesday, November 17
02:00 PM
22, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Oger - Blanchet +33 1 42 46 96 95 contact@ogerblanchet.fr
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 86,000 lots published

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