[DU PONT, GRATIEN]. Controverses des sexes Masculin et Foemenin. Paris: Gilles Corrozet for Vivant Gautrot 1541. 8vo, 149 x 91 mm. (5 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.), old (seventeenth-century?) limp vellum, small yapp edges, title lettered in ink on spine, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed, title supplied from another slightly shorter copy, 2 or 3 discreet marginal repairs, occasional faint spotting, lightly washed. Sixth edition, 3 parts in one, separate titles, 264 leaves, continuously paginated, roman type, title woodcuts, approximately 103 small text woodcuts (differing from the previous edition), woodcut initials, Corrozet's woodcut device on verso of last leaf. Brunet II, 251-2; Suppl. I, 294. RARE. | Christie's

Lot 110

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[DU PONT, GRATIEN]. Controverses des sexes Masculin et Foemenin. Paris: Gilles Corrozet for Vivant Gautrot 1541. 8vo, 149 x 91 mm. (5 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.), old (seventeenth-century?) limp vellum, small yapp edges, title lettered in ink on spine, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed, title supplied from another slightly shorter copy, 2 or 3 discreet marginal repairs, occasional faint spotting, lightly washed. Sixth edition, 3 parts in one, separate titles, 264 leaves, continuously paginated, roman type, title woodcuts, approximately 103 small text woodcuts (differing from the previous edition), woodcut initials, Corrozet's woodcut device on verso of last leaf. Brunet II, 251-2; Suppl. I, 294. RARE.

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[DU PONT, GRATIEN]. Controverses des sexes Masculin et Foemenin. Paris: Gilles Corrozet for Vivant Gautrot 1541. 8vo, 149 x 91 mm. (5 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.), old (seventeenth-century?) limp vellum, small yapp edges, title lettered in ink on spine, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed, title supplied from another slightly shorter copy, 2 or 3 discreet marginal repairs, occasional faint spotting, lightly washed. Sixth edition, 3 parts in one, separate titles, 264 leaves, continuously paginated, roman type, title woodcuts, approximately 103 small text woodcuts (differing from the previous edition), woodcut initials, Corrozet's woodcut device on verso of last leaf. Brunet II, 251-2; Suppl. I, 294. RARE.

Provenance: Tobie-Gustave Herpin, bookplate (sale, Paris, 27-29 May 1903, lot ) -- Abel Lefranc (sale, Paris, 17-19 February 1954, lot ) -- (from Lardanchet, 1970, unidentified catalogue/75).