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37 CAMPBELL, Janet. Maternity Services. [Together with:] CAMPBELL, Janet, & H. M. Vernon. National Health Services and Preventive Methods for Improving National Health. London: Faber & Faber, & British Association for Labour Legislation, 1935 & [1941] the author’s own copies First editions, first impressions, initialled by Campbell on the front wrappers, Maternity Services additionally inscribed as her “personal copy”. Campbell was a hugely influential figure in the establishment of Britain’s National Health Service, and a pioneer in the improvement of maternity and child welfare services; these are two important and commercially scarce publications. Campbell (1877–1954) earned her MD and MS degrees in 1904 and 1905 and was briefly employed as a surgeon before working as a Senior Medical Officer for Maternity and Child Welfare at the Ministry of Health. In 1907 she joined the Board of Education as Chief Woman Medical Adviser, making her the board’s first full-time female medical officer. She helped in the preparation of the 1923 Hadow Report, which laid the foundations for the 1944 Education Act (a “triumph of progressive reform” – Jeffereys), and was a member of the War Cabinet’s Committee of Women in Industry during the Second World War. Two works, octavo. Original wire-stitched wrappers lettered in black, Maternity Services in orange wrappers, front wrapper of National Health Services blocked in green. Subscription form for British Association for Labour Legislation and newspaper clipping loosely inserted into National Health Services. Tiny chips at spine ends of Maternity Services with a few spots to edges and gutters, offsetting to title page of National Health Services ; a near-fine set. Kevin Jeffereys, “R.A. Butler, The Board of Education and the 1944 Education Act”, History , vol. 69, no. 227, 1984. £1,250 [151970]

39 CHÉLIGA-LOEWY, Marya. Almanach féministe. Paris: Edouard Cornély, 1900 international feminism at the turn of the century A rare almanac documenting international feminist movements, edited by the French and Polish activist Marya Chéliga-Loewy. The first and only other issue was for the year 1899. Four copies of this 1900 issue and five of the 1899 issue are recorded in institutions worldwide, only two of which hold both issues. No copy of either has been traced at auction. The almanac records feminist initiatives around the world and includes articles by leading international activists such as Finnish feminist Adelaïde Ehrnrooth, Polish novelist Eliza Orzeszkowa, American lawyer and educator Belva Lockwood (the first woman to be admitted to practise law before the US Supreme Court), and British suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Chéliga-Loewy (1854–1927) founded the Universal Women’s Union, the first international feminist association in France, in 1890. She founded the International Feminist Theatre in 1897, designed to encourage women playwrights, and for which she herself wrote numerous, often highly political, plays. In 1909 she founded the Union française pour le suffrage des femmes and from then until 1914 acted as head of the Permanent Congress of International Feminism. Duodecimo. Original grey pictorial card wrappers, neatly rebacked, covers printed in red. Text in French. Occasional pencil marks to text. Wrappers slightly soiled, book block browned, edges a little brittle, remaining a very good , well-preserved copy. ¶ Sylvia Paletschek & Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective , 2004; Jennifer Waelti- Walters & Steven C. Hause, eds, Feminisms of the Belle Epoque, a Historical and Literary Anthology , 1994. £2,500 [153633]

40 CHISHOLM, Grace. Algebraisch-gruppentheoretische Untersuchungen zur sphärischen Trigonometrie. Göttingen: W. Fr. Kaestner, 1895 the first woman to receive a doctorate in germany First edition of the mathematician’s PhD thesis: a smart copy of a fragile publication sent to friends and acquaintances. Chisholm (1868–1944) was the first woman to receive a doctorate in any field from a German university, Germany being the leading country for creative mathematics at the time. In 1889 Chisholm entered Girton College, Cambridge, where she became Girton’s Sir Francis Goldschmid Scholar of mathematics and graduated with the equivalent of first- class honours (women were not granted formal degrees at the time). “In response to a challenge, she took the Oxford examination unofficially and obtained the highest mark for all students at Oxford that year” (Wiegand, p. 40), thus becoming the “first person, man or woman, to obtain a First in any subject at both Oxford and Cambridge” (Rothman, p. 91). Aware of the lack of funding for female scholars and “disliking the British system of mathematics education, she enrolled in a newly launched programme of higher education for women conducted at Göttingen under Felix Klein, director of the mathematics faculty. Two years later she was the first to complete the programme” ( ODNB ). Octavo (241 × 170 mm). Original green paper-backed printed paper wrappers. Figures in text, including 3 full-page at rear. Deaccessioned from the Cantonal und University Library of Fribourg (BCU/KUB), their shelf stamp on front wrapper and deaccession stamp on imprint page. Short split at foot of spine, foxing to margins, increasing at final leaves, a very good copy of a fragile publication. ¶ Patricia Rothman, “Grace Chisholm Young and the Division of Laurels”, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London , vol. 50, no. 1, 1996, pp. 89–100; Sylvia M. Wiegand, “Grace Chisholm Young”, in Complexities: Women in Mathematics , 2016. £1,250 [146403]

38 CERFVOL, Le Chevalier de. Cri d’une honnête femme qui reclame le divorce. [Bound with five others.] London [although on the continent, possibly Switzerland]: [s.n.,], 1770 divorce and utopia First edition of this pro-divorce Enlightenment tract, almost certainly a pseudonym, “whose rate of divorce-tract production equalled that of John Milton” (Phillips, p. 168). Originating in an analysis of France’s depopulation, Cerfvol argues that divorce encourages procreation and has the potential to promote equality between the sexes, seeing “the indissolubility of marriage as a form of enslavement, and divorce as a way of maintaining individual liberty” (Roulston, p. 46). It is bound with five other works, including a lunar utopia. Cerfvol published nine works favouring divorce within a seven year period, written from the perspectives of both husband and wife, but acknowledging that women were under greater restrictions than men. Their focus on population situates them as a precursor of Malthus (Spengler, pp. 94-6). Cri d’une honnête femme qui reclame le divorce is written from the point of view of a woman trapped in a miserable marriage, yearning to be free to resume life and become a mother. Six works in one volume, octavo (165 × 97 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, brown morocco spine label, gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red edges. Complete with half-titles. Binding a little rubbed with light wear at extremities, slight repair at head of rear joint, contents clean save for browning to a few leaves in Acajou et Zirphile . Very good. ¶ Cerfvol: ESTC T204339 (locating five copies). Roderick Phillips, Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society , 1988; Chris Roulston, Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France , 2016; Joseph J. Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus , 2013. £2,000 [136950]

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