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PETIT, PIERRE. De Amazonibus dissertatio. Text illustrations, mostly of numismatic subjects; folding engraved map of the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. [12], 398, [12] pages, including engraved additional title. 12mo, 161x98 mm, contemporary paneled calf, joints cracked, cords intact; contents generally clean. Signature of the Scottish patriot and collector Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716) on title. Amsterdam: apud Joannem Wolters & Ysbrandum Haring, 1687
Second edition of a 1685 historical study of the legendary warrior women. The addenda on pages 381-98 contain references to Columbus, cannibals, and New World Amazons. Alden 687/106.
