Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £350 |
DOLL, Catharina (1750-1824). Almanak voor Vrouwen door Vrouwen. MDCCXCII. Amsterdam: De Wed. J. Doll, [?1791]. Small square 8vo (98 x 80mm). Half title, engraved title, 5 engraved plates, one of which double-page (one signature detached). Attractively bound in contemporary silk boards, the upper cover with an oval watercolour study of a classical landscape topped with a garland, the lower cover with a watercolour cornucopia, both covers with a blue Greek key-pattern border, floral endpapers, gilt edges, decorated slipcase. The first in this series of "Almanacs for Women by Women" which ran until 1817.