Live auction - Lot 1016
[Medicine - Gynaecology]
Vroedkundige oeffenschool, vervattende in een klein bestek meerderendeels alles, 't geen tot deze konst eenige betrekking heeft, de geneeskunde uitgezonderd, uitgegeeven bij wijze van lessen.
Ghent, J.F. vander Schueren, 1784
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: [12]-432-[8] pp.; 21 pl. (some min. soiling).
Contemp. brown mottled calf (severely used, parts of leather missing, spine def., almost disbound). Inside a good and sound copy.
Rare first edition of this important Dutch manual of obstetrics by J.B. Jacobs (1734-1790), dedicated to the vassals of the castellany of "Auderburg van Gend". Ill. with 21 full-page numbered engr. plates (2 folding) by Tiberghien and J.L. Wauters. This book was available to midwives in many Flemish villages and towns. Woodcut ill. on title.
Ref. Bibl. gant. 6510. - Blake 232. - Wellcome III:339. - Bibl. Med. Neerl. I:338. - STCV. - COPAC. - Not in BnF.