Live auction - Lot 737
[Obstetrics]
Traité des maladies des femmes grosses et de celles qui sont accouchées [...][- Observations sur la grossesse et l'accouchement des femmes [...]].
Paris, La Compagnie des libraires, 1738-1740
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
2 vol., 4to: [12]-555-[25], [8]-671 pp. (engr. p. 209 pasted over by the same image, browning and dampstaining).
Mod. brown shagreen, marbled paper on covers, spines with 5 raised bands, red edges.
Last and most complete edition (first 1668) of this famous textbook on obstetrics by the surgeon and the Paris obstetrician Mauriceau (1637-1709). Ill. with 32 smaller and larger engr. showing female anatomy, fetuses, surgical instruments, etc. "The outstanding textbook of the time (...) This book established obstetrics as a science" (Garrison & Morton).
Ref. Blake 294. - Cp. Garrison & Morton, 3e éd., 6147.