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A pair of witty, irreverent treatises on women's equality considered two of the earliest feminist arguments in English
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London: A. Roper & E. Wilkinson, 1696. First edition. Bound with [Drake, Judith], An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. London: A. Roper and R. Clavel, 1697. Third edition..... (Item #4351)

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The first attempt at a comprehensive history of prostitution published in English
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An Essay Towards a General...

London: Richard Baldwin at the Oxford Arms, 1697. First edition. Finely bound in full crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. All edges speckled red. Early bookseller's description tipped in at..... (Item #4305)

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“No better study of a nation’s institutions…has ever been written” – NY Times
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London: Saunders and Otley, 1838, 1840. First English language edition. Third Edition of Part One and First Edition of Part Two. Bound uniformly in the publisher's cloth, likely sold together..... (Item #3178)

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The first collected edition of Sir Thomas More's works
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London: John Cawood, John Walley, and Richarde Tottle, 1557. First edition. Bound in a late 18th century or early 19th century full calf binding. Boards ruled in gilt and blind..... (Item #1753)

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Among the most storied and controversial feminist figures of the 19th century, hailed as the first female presidential candidate of a recognized party and the first woman to head a brokerage firm
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The Origin, Tendencies, and Principles...

New York: Woodhull, Claflin &Co, 1871. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Brown coated endpapers. Spine gently rolled and small bumps to corners;..... (Item #4369)

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Documenting a reformer's fight for emancipation, integrated education, universal suffrage, and an end to anti-miscegenation laws, with provenance from a woman activist's library
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Cincinnati: Published for the author, 1855. First edition. Original publisher's cloth over card, stamped in blind with gilt to front board. Yellow endpapers. Trivial chipping to spine ends; binding square..... (Item #4368)

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A girl's coming of age that was a best-selling book in its time, with a letter documenting its author's role in publication
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The Lamplighter (with accompanying ALS)...

Boston: John Jewett & Co., 1854. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding embossed in blind with gilt to spine. Yellow endpapers. Spine gently rolled and trivial shelfwear to extremities. Front..... (Item #4367)

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A new, activist form of history that encouraged women not to focus on individual figures of the past but on systemically oppressed communities
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The History of England...in a....

London: Richard Philips, 1806. First edition. Bound to style in half calf over marbled boards, with gilt and morocco labels to spines. A pleasing, square set measuring 170 x 100mm..... (Item #4363)

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An exceptionally preserved example of French Romantic poetry reimagined for the modern eye
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Paris: A. Blaizot, 1928. First edition. Original pictorial printed portfolio wraps with gilt to front. Housing 10 gatherings on fine paper, with all edges untrimmed. Number 64 of a superb..... (Item #4289)

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A book that defined polite society before the Civil War -- and the first culinary work by a Black American
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The House Servant's Directory; Or...

Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1827. First edition. Contemporary tree sheep, skillfully rebacked and recornered with gilt and morocco label to spine. Tight, square, and pleasing, with minor signs of worming..... (Item #4269)

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Marcus Aurelius' philosophies, finely bound and accompanied by vivid Pre-Raphaelite illustrations
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The Thoughts of the Emperor...

London: Printed for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner, 1909. First Thus. Edition limited to 500 on handmade Riccardi paper, of which this is number 343. Finely bound by..... (Item #4267)

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A mother advises her son -- and all sons by proxy -- on avoiding hasty sexual relationships and strategically finding a companionate marriage
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London: W. Cadell and T. Davies, 1803. First edition. Contemporary tree calf, recornered and rebacked to style with gilt and morocco label to spine. All edges speckled blue. Original endpapers..... (Item #4256)

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Using her own marital status to quash complaints from men, Mrs. Budden presents lessons drawn from Miss Hamilton, Miss Edgeworth, and Miss Chapone
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Thoughts on Domestic Education; The...

London: Charles Knight, 1826. First edition. Contemporary full calf with gilt and morocco to spine, and boards ruled in gilt. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Front joint professionally strengthened. Externally..... (Item #4255)

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