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In satirizing one of London's most successful courtesans, a poem reveals how she socially constructed her power
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The Courtesan

London: J. Harrison in Covent Garden, 1765. First edition. Contemporary panelled calf with gilt to spine and boards. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing and shelfwear to spine and front..... (Item #4227)

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Events that brought the systemic racism of American law enforcement and judiciary into the national spotlight
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Washington DC: August 18, 1970. First edition. First issue, with the earlier date in August and no printed fingerprints. Measuring 10.5 x 15.75 inches with one horizontal and two vertical..... (Item #4223)

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The education pioneer's first book, popular for making botanical sciences accessible for instructors and students
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Familiar Lectures on Botany...For the...

Hartford: H. and F.J. Huntington, 1829. First edition. Contemporary tree calf with morocco label to spine. Gentle bumps to corners; slight bowing to upper front board. Internally with some light..... (Item #3922)

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Educating suffragists in using consistent, logical language to engage potential supporters of the 19th Amendment
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Suffrage Argument Outline for Speech...

New York: National Woman Suffrage Association Publishing Company, January 1917. First edition. Original self-wraps with adverts to rear. Measuring 160 x 90mm and complete in 19 pages. Some faint offsetting..... (Item #4205)

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Part science fiction, part spiritual journey, Underhill's first novel calls humans to choose "loveliness" over simple morality
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The Grey World (Presentation Copy)...

London: William Heinemann, 1904. First edition. Original gray publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt and black. A pleasing, square copy with some sunning to spine and light foxing to the..... (Item #4109)

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"The richest surviving body of evidence revealing the nature and substance of women's intellectual community in British America and the early Republic"
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Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive in...

Philadelphia: Joseph James, 1787. First edition. Contemporary calf with five raised bands. Gentle bumps to corners and discreet early repairs to joints. and hinges. Complete, including publisher's adverts at rear..... (Item #3902)

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A woman's perspective on how revolutionary violence affects men and women, local and international communities
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A Sketch of Modern France...

London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. First edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. Some gentle bumping to corners and rubbing to boards..... (Item #4194)

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The Costume of China; The...

London: William Miller, [& Edward Ormey for Modern India], 1800; 1801; 1803; 1804; 1804; c.1824. First editions (and one Second). The Costume of Turkey is the second edition of 1804..... (Item #4054)

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Bound in a spectacular vellucent binding by Cedric Chivers
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The Birth, Life, and Acts...

London: J. M. Dent, 1893. First Thus. 2 volumes, large square octavo (240 x 192 mm). Contemporary full vellum over bevelled boards by Cedric Chivers of Bath for Bumpus of..... (Item #4055)

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Striking illustrations in this handsome set of Shakespeare's dramatic works
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The Dramatic Works of William...

London: Printed for J. Walker, 1820. Stereotype edition. Twelve octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in; 210 x 123 mm). Bound in contemporary full crimson straight-grained morocco with triple..... (Item #3777)

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The original appearance in book form of the first accurate translation into English of the classic story of Scheherazade
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The Thousand and One Nights...

London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839-1841. First Thus. Three large octavo volumes (247 x 157 mm) bound circa 1920 in three-quarter red morocco over cloth boards ruled in gilt. Spines..... (Item #3556)

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A foundational work in the call for racial justice in what would become the United States
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The Works of John Woolman...

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank in Market Street, 1774. First edition. Two volumes bound in one, with separate titles and continuous register. Contemporary sheep with modern morocco spine label; some cracking to..... (Item #4196)

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Tom Sawyer "gives incomparably the best picture of life in that region as yet known to fiction."
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...

Hartford, Conn. The American Publishing Company, 1876. First edition. First printing, with the half-title and the frontis illustration on separate leaves. Collates complete as per BAL 3369 with the triple..... (Item #4188)

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Beautifully bound with water colored illustrations, a most exceptional gathering of Dumas' works
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The Romances of Alexandre Dumas...

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1902. Orleans Edition. One of 250 numbered sets extra-illustrated with water color illustrations, of which this is number 70. Finely bound in three-quarter crushed morocco..... (Item #4185)

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"No better study of a nation’s institutions and culture than Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer; none perhaps as good"
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Democracy in America. Part the...

London: Saunders & Otley, 1836. Second edition in English. Two octavo volumes, collating xliv, 333, [1 blank]; viii, 462: complete with the folding map to the front of volume 1..... (Item #4163)

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Bound together in one place, a series of directly related call-and-response pamphlets published only weeks apart trace men and women debating The Woman Question
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Petition of the Ladies &...

London: Various, 1693. First editions. Late 18th - early 19th century full polished calf with gilt to spine and front board. Marbled endpapers. A pleasing, square copy with just a...... (Item #4178)

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Addressing both of her children, the Marchioness defends the dignity of women against misogynist stereotypes
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Advice from a Mother to...

London: Thomas Worrall, 1729. First edition in English. Contemporary full red morocco embossed in gilt in the cottage roof style and sympathetically rebacked and recornered. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers..... (Item #4171)

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The first critique of the corrupt American Gilded Age, and the novel that gave the period its name
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The Gilded Age: A Tale...

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1874. Early issue. Inscribed by Frank Bliss (son of Elisha Bliss, the publisher): "Copy of first edition in original cloth binding, published in December 1873 The..... (Item #3439)

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