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MEDICINE. -- Johannes SCHENCK von Grafenberg (1530-1598). Monstrorum Historia Memorabilis. Frankfurt: Matthias Becker, 1609. 4° (194 x 150mm). Engraved device on title, repeated on recto of N1, and 55 illustrations (six full-page). (A1 repaired with slight loss to headline, some other margins somewhat tattered, some browning and light worming.) Old stained limp vellum (rubbed). -- Jean Louis BAUDELOCQUE (1746-1810). L'Art des Accouchemens. Paris: Crapelet for Méquignon, 1807. 2 volumes, 8° (195 x 127mm). Half-titles (the verso of that in vol.I signed by the author, as called-for). 17 engraved plates, 16 folding; 3 folding letterpress tables. (Occasional paperfaults.) Contemporary half speckled sheep, spines gilt. Fourth edition. A FINE COPY. -- F.A.DELEURYE. Traité des Accouchemens en faveur des éleves. Paris: Lambert and Didot, 1770. 8° (193 x 120mm). Half-title. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt (joints slightly split, corners rubbed). Provenance: Sociéte Medicale, Geneva (ink stamp on title). -- Daniel DELAROCHE (1743-1813). Recherches sur la Nature et le Traitement de la Fièvre Puerpérale. Paris: Didot, 1783. 12° (170 x 97mm). Contemporary half sheep (joints split). Provenance: L'Hôpital Cantonal, Geneva (medical library stamp); Sociéte Medicale, Geneva (ink stamp on title). -- and seven others, medical works, six on the treatment of women (obsteterics and others). (12)