RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE. LES GYNOGRAPHES, ou idées de deux honnêtes-femmes sur un projet de règlement proposé à toute l'Europe pour mettre les femmes à leur place, et opérer le bonheur des deux sexes. La Haie, chés Gosse and Pinet, chés Humblot, 1777. 2 parts in 2 volumes in-8 of [8]-238 and 239 to 567-[1] pages, paperback, untrimmed, in modern hardback folder and slipcase (Lobstein-Laurenchet). First edition of this third volume of Idées Singulières with historical and supporting notes followed by the names of famous women collected by the author. Restif began composing the Gynographes, the third volume of the "Idées singulières", on 20 May 1776. The first part of the work contains a project for reforming the mores and customs of the second sex; the second is a compilation of all the customs and usages of the world relating to women... (Rives-Childs). Freckles, spine split and restored, a few rings, small marginal defect on the last leaf, paper loss in the margin of 4 leaves. Copy entirely untrimmed, as it came from the printer, a rare condition (Rives-Childs, p. 245) (Lacroix, p. 143).