Live auction - Lot 762
Lot description
1. Schurig, M. - Gynaecologia historico-medica hoc est congressus muliebris consideratio physico-medico-forensis [...]. Dresden, Leipzig, Hekelius, 1730. 4to: [4]-418-[18] pp. (browned and dampstained). Contemp. calf (covers warping, lower cover def.), gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands, red edges, marbled endpapers. Unfresh copy. Schurig (1656-1733) was the first physician to occupy himself with the anatomy of the sexual organs. In this work he describes exceptional sexual practices. Ref. Blake 410. - BnF. - COPAC. - VD-18 11367733. Prov. De Buvre (ms. ownership entry). - 2. Tissot, S.A. - L'onanisme. Dissertation sur les maladies produites par la masturbation. Nouvelle édition. Avignon, Offray, 1825. 8vo: xii-202 pp. Mod. binding. Ref. BnF. - 3. Crocq, J. - Traité des tumeurs blanches des articulations. Brussels, Janssens-Deffossé; Paris, Germer-Baillière, etc., 1853. 8vo: xvi-718-viii pp. Half calf (def.). Ill. with 10 pl. lithographed by G. Severeyns. Ref. BnF. - 4. Bablot, B. - Effets prodigieux de l'imagination des femmes enceintes, prouvés par les faits les plus curieux, et recueillis dans les meilleurs historiens, philosophes et médecins [...]. Paris, Royez, an XIII [1805]. 8vo: 234 pp. Cardboard covers. Ref. BnF. Cp. Wellcome II:80. Prov. Baron Etien. Félix. d'Henin de Cuvillers (bookpl.).