The Ladies' Philosophy of Love

Lot 207
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Lot 207 | The Ladies' Philosophy of Love
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STEARNS, Charles (1753-1826). The Ladies' Philosophy of Love. A Poem, in Four Cantos. Leominster, MA: John Prentiss for the author, 1797.

Crisp, partially unopened first edition. Written the year after the author's Harvard graduation, this poem expresses a certain youthful spirit in its enumerations of the amorous virtues of women. Sabin 90855; Evans 32876.

Quarto (207 x 168mm). 76pp., partially unopened (small dampstain in bottom margin of a few leaves, tear on final leaf). Disbound, stab sewn.
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