Lucina Sine Concubitu A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Royal Society with 3 Engravings on Copper
by Hester Sainsbury
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-076. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 12mo. Published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, UK. 1930. Iv, 41 pgs. #303 from a limited edition of 500. Bound in 1/2 vellum and illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An eighteenth-century scientific hoax by `Sir' John Hill, purporting to show with incontestable evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed without any commerce with Man." The Text is reprinted from the edition of 1750. E-076; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Last Exit Books (US)
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- Title
- Lucina Sine Concubitu A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Royal Society with 3 Engravings on Copper
- Author
- Hester Sainsbury
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Place of Publication
- E-076
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.