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MIDWIFERY -- STONE, Sarah. A Complete Practice of Midwifery. Consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, London: T. Cooper, 1737. Small 8° (166 x 103mm). Half title, woodcut headpieces and vignettes. (Lower part of text lightly waterstained throughout, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf (worn). Provenance: library stamp of the Imperial Moscow University and manuscript accession number on verso of title. FIRST EDITION. Not in Garrison & Morton, Blake, Waller or Wheeler.
RÖDERER, Johann Georg (1726-1763). Observationum medicarum de partu laborioso decades duae prima et secunda, Göttingen: Bossiegelian, 1756. Small 4° (191 x 163mm). Woodcut vignette on title, woodcut headpiece. (Light stain on final leaf.) Contemporary half calf (head of spine torn with loss of upper compartment, rubbed). Provenance: library stamp of the Imperial Moscow University and manuscript accession number on verso of title; accession number repeated on one leaf of text. FIRST EDITION. Blake p. 385.
GALLANDAT, David Henry (1732-1782). Grondbeginzelen der vroedkunde, volgens de bespiegeling en offening d er heedendaagsche vroedkundigen, Middelburg: Jeroen van de Sande, 1764. 8° (223 x 138mm). Woodcut vignette on title. (Lightly spotted, rear endpaper partly torn away.) Contemporary boards (spine worn, sides very rubbed). Provenance: library stamp of the Imperial Moscow University and manuscript accession number on verso of title. FIRST EDITION. Blake p. 165; Wellcome III, 85 only lists the second edition.
DEMANGEON, Jean Baptiste (1764-1844). Examen critique de la doctrine et des procédés du c[itoy]en Sacombe, dans l'art des accouchements, Paris: chez l'auteur & J.J. Fuchs, An VII [1799]. 8° (194 x 123mm). (Corners of first and last few leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary half calf (rubbed, spine slightly discoloured and with a few ink stains). Provenance: library stamp of the Imperial Moscow University and manuscript accession number on verso of title. FIRST EDITION. Blake p. 114. (4)
RÖDERER, Johann Georg (1726-1763). Observationum medicarum de partu laborioso decades duae prima et secunda, Göttingen: Bossiegelian, 1756. Small 4° (191 x 163mm). Woodcut vignette on title, woodcut headpiece. (Light stain on final leaf.) Contemporary half calf (head of spine torn with loss of upper compartment, rubbed). Provenance: library stamp of the Imperial Moscow University and manuscript accession number on verso of title; accession number repeated on one leaf of text. FIRST EDITION. Blake p. 385.
GALLANDAT, David Henry (1732-1782). Grondbeginzelen der vroedkunde, volgens de bespiegeling en offening d er heedendaagsche vroedkundigen, Middelburg: Jeroen van de Sande, 1764. 8° (223 x 138mm). Woodcut vignette on title. (Lightly spotted, rear endpaper partly torn away.) Contemporary boards (spine worn, sides very rubbed). Provenance: library stamp of the Imperial Moscow University and manuscript accession number on verso of title. FIRST EDITION. Blake p. 165; Wellcome III, 85 only lists the second edition.
DEMANGEON, Jean Baptiste (1764-1844). Examen critique de la doctrine et des procédés du c[itoy]en Sacombe, dans l'art des accouchements, Paris: chez l'auteur & J.J. Fuchs, An VII [1799]. 8° (194 x 123mm). (Corners of first and last few leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary half calf (rubbed, spine slightly discoloured and with a few ink stains). Provenance: library stamp of the Imperial Moscow University and manuscript accession number on verso of title. FIRST EDITION. Blake p. 114. (4)
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