Astruc j ean (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Small 8vo. lxxii + 308pp. Some typographical ornaments in text. Contemporary mottled sheep, backstrip gilt; spine repaired. A treatise on childbirth, based on a series of lectures to midwives given by the author at the request of the Paris Medical Faculty, the first course of its kind in France. A short history of obstetrics precedes the lectures. Astruc (1684-1766) was professor of anatomy at Toulouse and later at Montpellier and Paris. He was also physician to Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland. A good copy; top blank margin of half title restored; an early ownership stamp and signature in tailend margin of page 144. Wellcome II, p 65. Blake, p22 (both with incorrect collations). Osler 1858.…