Tytler henry william (6 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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London:: Printed for the author by John Nichols, Red-Lion Passage, and sold by J. Debrett, Piccadilly. . . and by all the principal booksellers in Great Britain, 1797., 1797. 8vo. 22 cm cxci, [1], 224 pp. LACKS engraved frontispiece (supplied in photocopy). Subscriber's list. Modern beige gilt-stamped cloth. Foxed. Binding is new. First separate edition in English, by Tytler, and first edition of this translation. Originally written in Latin in 1584, the text has been reprinted many times. The poem is divided into three parts-the first being advice for pregnant women; the second concerning care of children from birth until weaning; the third concerning diseases of nursing children-all with numerous footnotes and with both historical and mythological references. The poem is preceded by a dedication, preface and life of the author. A list of subscribers is found at the rear of the book. This copy has the frontispiece available in photocopy. / Peltier points to this work and two other accounts, Nicolas Andry [1741], and Claude Quillet, Callipoedia, as a way of stating that medical history at this period of the eighteenth century was able to move beyond the standard of disfigurement and crippling diseases, and turning to two 'popular' books [Quillet's & Sainte-Marthe's] on child rearing to represent the start of a modern era in orthopedics. See: Leonard F. Peltier, Orthopedics: A History and Iconography, p. 20. See: Blake p. 398; Waller 8402. See: Michael Obladen, Oxford Textbook of the Newborn: A Cultural and Medical History, [2021].…