Live auction - Lot 726

[Obstetrics]

DEVENTER, Hendrik van

Manuale operatien zynde een nieuw ligt voor vroed-meesters en vroed-vrouwen [...].

Leiden, Jan and Hermanus Verbeek, 1746

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8vo: [32]-555-[26] pp. (some spotting and staining throughout, larger stain on the first quires, also touching the first pl., some tears in the folding lines of the pl.).

Modern red binding, flat spine.

Third edition (first Dutch ed. 1701, first Latin in the same year) augmented with the remarks of the French doctor d' Ablaincourt by Deventer. Ill. with an author's portrait by Bouttats and 40 engr. on 36 pl. of which 7 fold. "This work gives the first accurate description of the female pelvis and its deformities, and the effect of the latter in complicating labour" (Garrison & Morton).
Ref. Blake 118. - STCN. - Cp. Garrison & Morton 6253.

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Lot 726

Manuale operatien zynde een nieuw ligt voor vroed-meesters en vroed-vrouwen [...].

DEVENTER, Hendrik van

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