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Maître Jean-Paul RENOUD-GRAPPIN
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[Medicine]. MAURICEAU (François).
See original version (French)
78
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[Medicine]. MAURICEAU (François).
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €120
Voluntary lot
Description
[Medicine]. MAURICEAU (François). A Treatise on the Diseases of Pregnant Women and Those Who Have Recently Given Birth, Teaching the Correct and True Method for Properly Assisting Women during Natural Childbirth, and the Means of Remedying All Unnatural Complications, as well as the Ailments of Newborn Infants: With a very precise description of all the parts of the female body involved in childbearing; the whole accompanied by several fine illustrations appropriate to the subject. Paris, the Booksellers’ Company, 1721–28. 2 vols. in-4°, [12], 555, [24] pp.; [8], 572, [12] pp., title page, 86 pp. Fawn sheepskin, spine with 5 raised bands, title page in red morocco, red edges. (Contemporary binding).
Sixth edition, corrected by the author, and expanded with several new figures and many highly significant observations, together with aphorisms containing all the principal precepts of the art. Numerous intaglio engravings within the text. The ‘Latest Observations on the Diseases of Pregnant Women and New Mothers’ bound at the end with its own title page.
Handwritten ex-libris of FALEOZ, or FABOZ, physician and surgeon; and, crossed out, Joseph DELPECH, Master of Surgery, 1760.
Some damage to the bindings, a few minor water stains of no consequence, a tear with no loss of text on p. 365 of Volume I.
See original version (French)
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