De l'excellence des hommes, contre l'egalit� des sexes, 1st edition, Paris, 1675, occasional minor spotting, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, slightly chipped at head and gilt decoration and titling worn away, 12mo First edition of this treatise containing the culmination of Poulain de la Barre's Cartesian defence of women's equality to men. The author's first 'feminist' work, earnestly entitled De l'Egalit� des deux sexes, had appeared in Paris two years earlier. (1)
De l'excellence des hommes, contre l'egalit� des sexes, 1st edition, Paris, 1675, occasional minor spotting, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, slightly chipped at head and gilt decoration and titling worn away, 12mo First edition of this treatise containing the culmination of Poulain de la Barre's Cartesian defence of women's equality to men. The author's first 'feminist' work, earnestly entitled De l'Egalit� des deux sexes, had appeared in Paris two years earlier. (1)
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