Description anatomique des parties de la femme, qui servent à la génération. Avec un Traité des monstres, de leur causes, de leur nature, & de leur differences [...].

3 parts in 1 vol., 4to: front.-[6]-128, [16]-366, 72 pp. (dampstains on lower corners quires h to l).

Contemp. sheep (corners rubbed, sm. def. on upper cover), spine on 4 raised bands (rebacked).

First French edition and important study of female generative organs and of deformities and "monsters" by the Flemish physician Jan Palfijn (1650-1730) being the French version of Licetus' book of monsters and Swammerdam's "Miraculum naturae" together with Palfyn's own observations on the monster twins of Ghent. Richly illustrated with engravings of remarkable monsters (Licetus) and of the female reproductive organs (Swammerdam): front., 7 fold. pl. showing female generative organs and the monster twins at the end of the first part, 4 pl. and 68 half-page engr. in part two; 3 fold. pl. in double at the end (also showing the monster twins: It was in April 1703, in the city of Ghent, when a siamese twins were born; they were joined at the lower part of their bodies. This created such a turmoil that Palfijn, being recognised as a great anatomist, was selected to dissect them). Title in red and black.
Ref. STCN. - BB IV:617/618:P73. - Bibl. Med. Neerl. I:93. - Blake 336. - Wellcome III:287. - BnF.
Prov. Dr. L. Hochgesand, Mainz (bookpl.). - Dr. med. Winterscheid, Porz/Rhein (mod. stamp).