Autumn 2020 Catalogue

27 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 “The Enfranchisement Of Women Is Simply An Inevitable Deduction From Democratic Principles” 24. PUTNAM-JACOBI, Mary. “Common Sense” Applied to Woman Suffrage. New York and London, 1894. Octavo, original burgundy cloth. $1350 First edition of a pivotal 19th-century suffrage work by American physician Putnam-Jacobi, featuring her momentous 1894 Address to New York’s Committee on Suffrage at the State Constitutional Convention, in original cloth. “A major leader in the suffrage movement,” Jacobi also stands as “one of the most important figures in the history of American medicine.” A graduate of the Female (later Woman’s) Medical College of Pennsylvania and the first woman admitted to France’s École deMédecine, she “drew a direct connection between women’s work, the vote, and the health of society” (Bittel, 2, 207, 216-20). Bookseller notation. Inkstamp to lower fore-edge. Interior fresh, expert restoration to inner hinges and endpapers. A near-fine copy in original cloth.