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Maître Jean-Paul RENOUD-GRAPPIN
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[Medicine]. BOIVIN (Mrs V[id]ow).
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71
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[Medicine]. BOIVIN (Mrs V[id]ow).
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €120
Voluntary lot
Description
[Medicine]. BOIVIN (Mrs V[id]ow). A Treatise on the Art of Childbirth, or Principles Based on the Practice of the Paris Maternity Hospital, and on that of the most renowned national and foreign practitioners; followed by 1° Mauriceau’s aphorisms; 2° a series of 143 engravings illustrating the mechanism of all types of childbirth; the composition of the human egg, etc. Paris, J.-B. Baillirèe and Cochard & Co., 1836. 2 vols. in-8°, each comprising XVI, 526 pp.; 143 plates, [1] p. of errata. Fawn-coloured full-grain sheepskin, long decorated spine, title page and volume covers in olive morocco, gilt roulette in the corners of the edges, marbled edges. (Contemporary binding).
Fourth edition, corrected and considerably expanded. The second volume contains the plates. Four synoptic tables and their summaries (chapters 2–5) on four fold-out plates, separate from Volume I. A few tears at the fastenings of the tables. Some foxing. A fine copy.
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Ref. : 226334 - 35
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