Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
[COQUILLART, GUILLAUME.] Les Présomptions des femmes. manuscript in french, written in roman hand in brown ink, 27 lines, recto and verso, on vellum. 8 leaves, including title with hand-drawn vignette and border. 152x94 mm, late 18th-century red straight-grain morocco gilt, blue silk doublures and endleaves; contents clean. Formerly in the inventory of Treuttel & Würtz (sale, lot 1814, 22 June 1817) and the libraries of Joseph Renard (sale, lot 551, 29 March 1881) and Henri Pène Du Bois (sale, 14 June 1887, lot 370). "Rouen: Abraham Cousturier," nd [i. e., later 18th century]

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Manuscript facsimile attributed to the 18th-century calligrapher F. F. Fyot, copied from an undated edition printed circa 1600. The text is a verse satire on women excerpted from the author's legal parody Droitz Nouveaulx. See Brunet IV, 864-65; Tchemerzine (1977) II, 523; and Gay-Lemonnyer III, 843-44 (not noting the edition copied here).