Paris: Chez Nyon I'ainé, Libraire, 1787. First edition. Gerritsen Collection of Women's History, 2429; Brunet 23212. A study of the social and legal status of women in Europe from the Roman period through the 18th century. In 22 brief chapters, Barthélemy-Gabriel Rolland D'Erceville writes about the education of women, their.....
Edinburgh: Printed by William Adams Junior. Sold by Booksellers of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, 1723, First and only edition. ESTC 140711. A re-examination of the history of Elizabeth Mure (1320-1355), the Countess of Strathearn, Athol and the wife of Robert II, King of Scots (1316-1390). It was generally alleged and.....
Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, May, 1826. An example of the influence and spread of the news of Mary Somerville’s first scientific publication, “On the Magnetizing Power of the More Refrangible Solar Rays” – i.e., the magnetizing power of sunlight – that had been published in the February, 1826, issue of the Proceedings.....