[Protestantisme] - Reunion of 2 pieces concerning Protestant - Lot 227

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[Protestantisme] - Reunion of 2 pieces concerning Protestant - Lot 227
[Protestantisme] - Reunion of 2 pieces concerning Protestant marriages and 2 satirical pieces. 1/ - [Jean Baptiste Jacques Élie de Beaumont]. - Question sur la légitimité du mariage des protestans françois célébré hors du royaume. S.l.n.d. [c. 1764]. In-12 full contemporary calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, title-piece - the work begins with the fx-title (but complete from 1 to 106 pp.), tail-cap faded, snag at head-cap, second plate with important lack of fleur de peau, worm work on the spine without implication to the text - 106 pp., [1 f. manuscript]. "Mémoire pour les sieurs demoiselles Potin, neveux nièces de la dame de Maincy, ses héritiers aux meubles acquêts propres paternels, contre la dame la demoiselle Des Jardins". Bound in fine: 2/ - Johnson, Abraham. - Lucina sine concubitu. Letter to the Royal Society of London. London, J. Wilcox, 1752 - 39 pp. Satire against the Royal Society of London, which refused his application, in which he claims to prove the possibility of a woman giving birth without sexual intercourse. It is also a satire against Buffon and his theory of spontaneous generation. 3/ - Roe, Richard. - Concubitus sine Lucina or Pleasure without pain. Reply to the letter entitled Lucina sine concubitu. London, 1752 - 38 pp, [1 manuscript f. and 2 blank ff.] This text is a parody of the preceding satire. 4/ - Servan. - Discours de Mr Servan, avocat-général au Parlement de Grenoble, dans la cause d'une femme protestante. Genève et Grenoble, J.S. Grabit, 1767 - [1 f.], 112 pp, [1 f. handwritten note].
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