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New Reflections on Women, By a Lady of the French Court London, J. P. Coderc, 1730 FROM WOMAN TO WOMAN: EVOCATION OF THE POWER OF THE SALONS IN THE 18th CENTURY. A VERY DESIRABLE COPY OF MADAME DU DEFFAND IN HER "CAT" BINDING. FORMER COLLECTIONS OF THE PRINCE DE BEAUVAU, HEIR OF MADAME DU DEFFAND, THEN OF EDMOND DE GONCOURT New corrected edition In-12 (159 x 92 mm). Flower on the title, a woodcut headband and initials COLLATION : π2 *10 A10 B-D12 (A6 badly signed A7; without *10 and D12 blanks) : (11) ff., 68 pp. CONTENTS: π1r: faux-title, π2r: title, *1r: epistle, *2r: epistle, *3v: preface, *8r: mailing, A1r: text BINDING OF THE PERIOD. calf, gilt decoration, spine decorated in the boxes of the cats of the Marquise du Deffand repeated five times, red edges PROVENANCE: Marie de Vichy-Champrond, Marquise du Deffand (1696-1780), then Charles-Juste de Beauvau-Craon (1720-1793) (bookplate "From the legacy of the Marquise du Deffand to the Prince de Beauvau") -- Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896; bookplate; autograph note signed in red ink on the endpaper: "Exemplaire aux chats de Made du Deffand, de Goncourt"; his sale, Paris, 1897, IV, no. 631) Minor old restorations to the binding BIBLIOGRAPHY: Barbier, IV, col. 134 -- Quentin Bauchart, II, pp. 436-437