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MAURICEAU, François (1637-1709)

De Mulierum praegnantium, parturientium, et puerperarum morbis tractatus

Parisiis
Auctorem
1681

€280 - €360

Small 4to, [16], 358, [14] pp, engr. front. with portrait of Mauriceau, 32 engr. in the text, one small wormhole in margins, some browning, cont. brown full calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges. Good copy

FIRST LATIN EDITION, translated from the French edition (1681) by the author himself. Perhaps the first obstetric text in the modern sense, Mauriceau's treatise established obstetrics as a science and as a separate medical specialty (Norman). Ref. Krivatsy 7594

Medicine