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WOMEN'S HISTORY & LITERATURE SUFFRAGE STANTON Elizabeth CadyABAA

Autograph Letter Signed. 2pp signed to Parker Pillsbury Dec. 8th 1895

189544165New York December 8th 1895. Autograph letter signed on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet 22x14.5cm.; approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st N.Y. Dec 8th and simply addressed to "Parker" presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 who with Stanton had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier. Faint mail folds small unobtrusive archival paper remnants to two corners from having been previously mounted else Near Fine and still quite fresh. Brief contemporary 1897 pencil note at bottom edge "Mrs. Stanton - born Nov. 12 1815 Now past 82 - C.E.R." though based on contents we would place this letter as having been written around 1895. Brief but significant missive addressed to Parker Pillsbury the American minister and women's suffrage advocate regarding a copy of Stanton's "Woman's Bible" she had just sent him. "I wonder if I could interest them a "Mrs. White" and one other sufficiently in the Woman's Bible to sell ten or twenty copies in there sic respective woman's clubs It is published at my expense hence I am trying to push its circulation." The controversial "Woman's Bible" a series of commentaries pertaining to the portions of the Bible relating to women was published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 and composed almost entirely by Stanton alone her committee of Bible revisors finding the project too controversial and harmful to the cause of women's suffrage. Clearly at the time of writing this letter the book was still meeting with resistance thus our placing the date at around 1895 Stanton turning to Pillsbury as a potential source of influential and wealthy patrons she inquires "Is Mrs. White still living & working Is that rich woman that Mr. illegible used to visit in Maine living". But by 1897 the book had become a best seller though many of the members of the women's suffrage movement would continue to distance themselves from it. This letter quite significant as a testimony to the aging Stanton organizer of the historical 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and her continuing indefatigable efforts and initial lack of support in getting this work circulated. See Tracy A. Thomas "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundation of Family Law" 2016 pp. 15 & 223. unknown books

WOMEN'S HISTORY & LITERATURE HOLT Luther EmmettABAA

The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses

189444281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 692,20 €

Museum of Foreign Literature and ScienceABAA

THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE

1833WRCAM55040Various places and publishers see below 1833. Broken run of twelve volumes described below. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards spines ruled in gilt gilt leather labels. Front board of volume XII detached bindings of most volumes rubbed and with wear to spine ends. Minimal foxing generally more prevalent in the final volume. About very good. A run of twelve volumes of a leading American periodical. THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE grew out of a weekly newspaper founded in 1818 by Eliakim Littell and R. Norris Henry called the PHILADELPHIA REGISTER. In 1822 it became a monthly under the present name and "for twenty years it was the leading American eclectic" Mott. Like many such periodicals it gained most of its news and information from British magazines. The majority of its contents were reviews poetry literary and scientific news biographical sketches of authors lists of new publications and articles on literature almost exclusively British. "The plates which came to be a prized feature of the magazine began in 1827 but were not published regularly until 1830; they added much to the attractiveness of the periodical" - Mott. In 1833 the name was changed yet again to THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ART see Vol. XXII below. The volumes included in this grouping are: 1 Vol. X. January to June 1827. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. Carvill 1827. 572pp. with engraved portraits and illustrations. Front board nearly detached. 2 Vol. XII. January to April 1828. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. Carvill 1828. 706pp. with engraved portraits and illustrations. Front board detached rear hinge loosening. 3 Vol. XIII. July to December 1828. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell & Brother; G. & C. Carvill 1828. 766pp. with engraved portraits and illustrations. Front board nearly detached. 4 Vol. XIV. January to June 1829. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1829. 574pp. with engraved illustrations and portraits. Front board loosening. 5 Vol. XV. July to December 1829. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell & Brother; G. &. C. & H. Carvill 1829. 574pp. with engraved illustrations and portraits. 6 Vol. XVI. January to June 1830. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell & Brother; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1830. 574pp. with engraved illustrations and portraits. Front board nearly detached. 7 Vol. XVII. July to December 1830. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1830. 573pp. with engraved plates and illustrations. 8Vol. XVIII. January to June 1831. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1831. 576pp. with engraved plates and illustrations. 9 Vol. XIX. July to December 1831. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1831. 718pp. including engraved plates and portraits. 10 Vol. XX. January to June 1832. Philadelphia & New York: E. Little; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1832. 669pp. including several engraved portraits and plates. 10 Vol. XXI. July to December 1832. Philadelphia Baltimore & New York: E. Littell; E. J. Coale; and G. & C. & H. Carvill 1832. 584pp. with portraits and sketches. 12 THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ART. Vol. XXII. January to June 1833. Philadelphia Boston & New York: E. Little and T. Holden; Kane & Co.; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1833. 837pp. including several engraved portraits and plates. Prevalent foxing else fine. MOTT AMERICAN MAGAZINES I pp.130 and 306-09. hardcover books

William Reese Company · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €

WOMENS' HISTORY & LITERATURE LGBTQ+ SINISTRARI DE AMENO RP. R. P.ABAA

De Sodomia: Tractatus in quo exponitur doctrina nova de Sodomia FÅ“minarum a Tribadismo distincta

187947623Parisiis: Apud Isidorum Liseux 1879. First Thus. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; xii89pp. Some light shelf wear and a few small soil spots tiny chips at spine ends else Very Good or better. Scarce extract from Sinistrari's larger work "De Delictis et Poenis" 1654 text entirely in Latin save for the publisher's tongue-in-cheek introduction in French. Liseux gained some notoriety a few years earlier when he published "De Daemonialitate et Incubus et Succubis" claiming to have discovered this heretofore unknown manuscript written in 1680 by the Franciscan priest Ludovico Maria Sinistrari 1622-1701. The work described the qualities of such beasts as vampires succubi and incubi though it has since been proposed that Liseux himself wrote the piece see J. Gordon Melton "The Vampire Book" 2010 p. 380. "De Daemonialitate" was eventually translated into English in 1879 and found its way into the hands of W.B. Yeats who borrowed Ezra Pound's copy and from it was inspired to compose the poem "The Black Centaur" first published in "The Tower" in 1928 Catherine E. Paul and Warwick Gould "W.B. Yeats and the Problem of Belief" "Yeats Annual" no. 21 p. 313. The present work is indeed authored by Sinistrari and remains here in its unalter ed Latin form presumably to avoid censure Liseux noting in his introduction that there's a reason he decided to publish this work sans illustration. Though the publisher's advertisement on the final leaf of text and rear cover only mention "De Daemonialitate" Liseux's catalog would go on to include the Kama Sutra and Ernest Dowson's "White Stains: Containing Also the Contemporary and Most Exhaustive Love's Cyclopaedia with Five Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in His Most Erotic Vein. Apud Isidorum Liseux unknown books

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €