Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 201
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[ASTELL, MARY? DRAKE, JUDITH? or SYMSON, ELIZABETH?] An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady. [10], xxii, 136, [8] pages, including 2 leaves of bookseller's ads at end. 8vo, contemporary panelled sheep, joints rubbed, cracked at bottom; lacks front free endpaper. London: S. Butler, 1721

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Fourth edition of a work of uncertain authorship first published in 1696.