Larcher, L.-J. - Lot 202

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Larcher, L.-J. - Lot 202
Larcher, L.-J. # Bescherelle ainé (introduction). La Femme jugée par les grands écrivains des deux sexes ou la Femme devant Dieu, devant la Nature, devant la Loi et devant la Société. 18 off-text illustrations. Paris, Garnier frères. 1854. 544pp. Large in-8. Original endpapers. Orientalist-inspired publisher's cardboard in midnight blue mosaic percaline with decorations on the boards and the spine. Large ornamental frame on the first plate with, in the center, a woman in traditional costume (Greek or Balkan). In the center of the second plate, woman dancing on a blue background in a beautiful gold frame. Rich decorative composition on the back. Gilt edges. New edition entirely recast and enlarged. The only work that brings together such a complete and varied set on women. Sublime cardboard with coruscating golds! Cardboard in new condition. Interior free of foxing. Ex-Libris of Pierre Desmottes.
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