Title: Observations Sur la Pratique des Acouchemens Naturels, Contre Nature et Monstreux, 1674. An Illustrated Medical Guide to Childbirth, With Numerous Engravings of Infants and More
Author: Cosme Viardel
Publisher: A Paris, Chez l'autheur: Et Jean d'Houry
Condition: Good
A late 17th century, second edition of Viardel’s Observations on the practice of natural, unnatural, and monstrous childbirth: with a very easy method for assisting women in all kinds of childbirth, without using hooks or any instrument other than the hand... With a treatise on the principal diseases that commonly affect women and girls, and on diseases of the breasts.
There are 15 full page engravings depicting various babies in the womb, extraction techniques, and more, as well as three anatomical folding plates.
One finely bound volume in octavo, (44)+371+(1) pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates, and three folding plates
This volume is in good shape, with rubbing and wear to the binding, and leather peeling to the spine. The title page is cleanly detached. There is minor foxing throughout.