Histoire de la génération de l'homme, comprenant l'étude comparative de cette fonction dans les divisions principales du règne animal.

4to: ix-170-vi pp.; 23 pl. (one plate missing (hand-coloured pl. VIII), spotting throughout, some pl. loosening).

Contemp. half green shagreen with corners (bumped, rubbed), marbled paper on covers (rubbed), gilt orn. flat spine (joints rubbed and starting to split), marbled endpapers.

Very rare Brussels ed. of this early illustrated study of human sexuality and reproduction, with plates and comparative anatomical material supplied by the physiologist Martin Saint-Ange and sections on hygiene, sexuality and law supplied by the medical writer Grimaud de Caux. Ill. with 12 engr. pl. in two states (but for one): 12 b/w pl. and 11 hand-coloured pl. Text in two col. divided in three parts with a.o. chapters on the imagination during sexual activity, aphrodisiac substances, impotence and sterility, legal ethics and priestly celibacy.
ref. BnF. - COPAC. - Not in Opac KBR.