Lucina Sine Concubitu: A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Royal Society. Three engravings on copper

by Hester Sainsbury by John Hill

$65 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Waltham Saint Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire: Printed & published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1930. First edition thus, 1/500 copies printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press. 12mo. 4 , 40 , 1 pp. Three plates, title page vignette. Addressing the premise that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed without any commerce with man, the text is reprinted from the edition of 1750. Very good. Parchment-backed patterned boards, top

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