Obstetrics and gynaecology
Collection of works, 17th-19th century
£945
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Mauriceau, François. The Diseases of Women with Child, and in Child-Bed … Translated by Hugh Chamberlen, by M. D. By whom this Second Edition it [is] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the Author's Anatomy. London: printed by John Darby, and are to be sold by the Booksellers, 1683. 8vo, contemporary calf, [18] 36 438 [8] pp., 8 engraved folding plates, binding somewhat shaken, spine with traces of crude tape-repairs, loss to foot of spine, initial blank loose, a few tears to plates, damp-stain to foot of a few signatures;
Nihell, Elizabeth. A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery. London: A. Morley, 1760. 8vo, contemporary calf, xvi vi 471 pp., binding worn, rear cover and front free endpaper detached, Andersonian Medical Library ink-stamps, spotting, marginal pen-markings;
La Motte, Guillaume Mauquest de. A General Treatise of Midwifery … Written originally in French … Translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, Surgeon. London: for James Waugh, 1746. 8vo, contemporary calf, xx 536 pp., ownership inscription ‘John White, M.D., Paisley’ to title-page, ink-stamps of the Andersonian Medical Library, front board detached;
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