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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN. Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossese et l'accouchement, jointe à l'angéologie de tout le corps humain, avec les planches imprimées en couleur, selon le nouvel art. Paris: Demonville 1778.
Folio, 425 x 275mm. (16 3/4 x 10 3/4in.), modern half red morocco, original thick paper wrappers preserved, t.e.g., others uncut, some old stains and browning, mostly at edges, foremargin of Plate 4 torn just touching plate.
"Seconde édition augmentée de la coupe de la Symphise", 8 color mezzotint plates (of 9, lacks the "coupe de la Symphise" plate). Collation: title (unsigned); A-I and one unsigned leaf of "Table générale et detachée" (probably issued with the first edition since there is no reference to Plate 9 in it). Rare.
The eight plates form four figures, a male, a female, a pregnant female and a female in labor.
Brunet II, 1507 (first edition); Cohen-De Ricci I, 427 (first edition).
Provenance: Unidentified contemporary library stamp on title; Juan Carlos Ahumada, library stamp on title; the present owner.
Folio, 425 x 275mm. (16 3/4 x 10 3/4in.), modern half red morocco, original thick paper wrappers preserved, t.e.g., others uncut, some old stains and browning, mostly at edges, foremargin of Plate 4 torn just touching plate.
"Seconde édition augmentée de la coupe de la Symphise", 8 color mezzotint plates (of 9, lacks the "coupe de la Symphise" plate). Collation: title (unsigned); A-I and one unsigned leaf of "Table générale et detachée" (probably issued with the first edition since there is no reference to Plate 9 in it). Rare.
The eight plates form four figures, a male, a female, a pregnant female and a female in labor.
Brunet II, 1507 (first edition); Cohen-De Ricci I, 427 (first edition).
Provenance: Unidentified contemporary library stamp on title; Juan Carlos Ahumada, library stamp on title; the present owner.