Mauriceau (françois) - Treatise On Diseases Of Fat Women. 1721, In Contemporary Binding.

MAURICEAU (François) - Treatise on diseases of fat women. And of those who have given birth teaching the good and true method to help women well in their natural deliveries and the means of remedying all those which are against nature and the indispositions of newborn children with a very exact description of all the parts of the woman which serve for generation; all accompanied by several intaglio figures, newly & very correctly engraved. Very useful work for surgeons, and necessary for all midwives, to learn how to practice the art of childbirth. Paris, Company of Booksellers, 1721; in-4, X-555 + table + VI-572 pp. + table, full period speckled calfskin bindings, spine adorned with 5 bands, marbled edges, title labels in red morocco. The 2 volumes. Sixth edition. (Original edition in 1668). This book was highly appreciated and often reissued until the middle of the 18th century. 28 engravings of different sizes distributed in the first volume. Heraldic Bookplate. A classic in obstetrics.