Live auction - Lot 720

[Gynaecology]

3 vol.

€ 200 / 300

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1. Goubelly, Claude André - Connoissances nécessaires sur la grossesse, sur les maladies laiteuses et sur la cessation du flux menstruel, vulgairement appellée temps critique [...]. Paris, l'Auteur, Méquignon, 1785. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo: xii-339-[1]-4-[1-1 bl.]-386-[5] pp. (some min. spotting, last leaf pasted on inside cover, some dampstaining on upper margins). Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (joints starting to split, sm. def. at head). Ref. BnF. - COPAC. - Blake 181. - Wellcome III:140. - 2. David, Jean-Pierre - Dissertation sur ce qu'il convient de faire pour augmenter, diminuer ou supprimer le lait des femmes. Paris, Huzard, an V, 1797. 8vo: 78 pp. (some spotting, sm. wormtracks on first lvs). Later half leather binding, marbled paper on covers, orig. wrappers pres. Uncut copy. Later edition (first 1763) of this very rare discourse on breastfeeding by the French physician David (1717-1784). Ref. COPAC. - Cp. BnF, Wellcome II:434 (first ed.). - 3. Freind, J. - Emmenologie ou Traité de l'évacuation ordinaire aux femmes [...]. Paris, J. Clouzier, 1738. 8vo: [24]-340-[4] pp. (some very min. browning). Contemp. calf (corners sl. def.), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (head sl. def.), red leather title label, marbled edges. Later, corr. ed. (first 1730) of this French translation (first Latin, 1703) of this rather rare treatise by the English physician Freind (1675-1728). Ref. Wellcome III:66. - Cp. Blake 161 (ed. 1730). - Not in Garrison & Morton, COPAC, BnF.

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