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MEDICINE. -- François MAURICEAU (1637-1709). Des Maladies des Femmes Grosses et Accouchées. Paris: Charles Coignard for the Author, Jean d'Houry and Robert de Ninville, 1668.
4° (240 x 175mm). Engraved frontispiece and 30 illustrations (6 full-page, 2 printed on the verso of a single sheet), some signed by Lombars after du Cerceau. (Vvv4 torn at upper margin, Xxx1-4 with light worming to margins, some general light spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt (spine chipped at head and foot, joints slightly split, corners bumped).
FIRST EDITION OF THE WORK WHICH ESTABLISHED OBSTETERICS AS A SCIENCE. 'The outstanding text-book of the time' (Garrison & Morton p.711), and a work that, in many languages, remained in print for over seventy years. Garrison & Morton 6147; Lefanu Lilly Library p.85.
4° (240 x 175mm). Engraved frontispiece and 30 illustrations (6 full-page, 2 printed on the verso of a single sheet), some signed by Lombars after du Cerceau. (Vvv4 torn at upper margin, Xxx1-4 with light worming to margins, some general light spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt (spine chipped at head and foot, joints slightly split, corners bumped).
FIRST EDITION OF THE WORK WHICH ESTABLISHED OBSTETERICS AS A SCIENCE. 'The outstanding text-book of the time' (Garrison & Morton p.711), and a work that, in many languages, remained in print for over seventy years. Garrison & Morton 6147; Lefanu Lilly Library p.85.