Lettres sur le pouvoir de l'imagination des femmes enceintes. Où l'on combat le préjugé qui attribue à l'imagination des mères le pouvoir d'imprimer sur le corps des enfans renfermés dans leur sein la figure des objets qui les ont frappées.

12mo: xii-226-[2] pp. (sl. brown. and foxing).

Later red morocco (upper cover sl. scratched, corners sl. rounded), triple gilt rule on covers, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (sl. faded, joints rubbed, locally split., head and tail defect.), a.e.g.

First and only edition by the Bordeaux doctor I. Bellet (1700 ?-1778). Intended to be pedagogical and rational, the work contains 23 letters to a lady. Approb. and privilege at the end.
Ref. Conlon 45:559 (= BL, BN, NUC). - Barbier II: 1300. - Blake p. 40. - COPAC (= Wellcome Libr.).
Prov.  "Dr. Arsène Drouet" (fl. 2nd half 19th c.), author of several medical works as well as a book on divorce (ms. mention).