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Medicine - Obstetrics - Mohrenheim, Joseph Jacob von. Treatise on the art of childbirth. Written at the highest command of Her Majesty the Empress of all Russia. 2 parts in 1 volume. With engraved title vignette, 24 engraved text vignettes and 46 (6 folded) copper plates. Leipzig, Gräff, 1803. 7 pp., 216 pp., 24 pp. 52 x 38 cm. Contemporary half leather binding (spine restored, corners bumped, covers scuffed). Title edition of the first edition of 1791, in which only the title page with publisher and year of publication has been changed, otherwise identical to the first edition. - Waller 6594 - Hirsch-H. IV, 229 - Blake 307 - Garrison-M. 6161 (for edition St. Petersburg 1791): "The importance of this work lies mainly in its splendid life-size engravings". - The splendid plates of high quality, compiled from Smellie, Roederer, Aitken and others and mostly engraved in life-size, make the book one of the most famous works of obstetrics of the 18th century. The work was commissioned by Catherine the Great. - Endpapers and title a little dusty, old name on title, partly browned and stained, some outer text leaves with narrow waterstain. VAT: *
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Medicine - Obstetrics - Mohrenheim, Joseph Jacob von. Treatise on the art of childbirth. Written at the highest command of Her Majesty the Empress of all Russia. 2 parts in 1 volume. With engraved title vignette, 24 engraved text vignettes and 46 (6 folded) copper plates. Leipzig, Gräff, 1803. 7 pp., 216 pp., 24 pp. 52 x 38 cm. Contemporary half leather binding (spine restored, corners bumped, covers scuffed). Title edition of the first edition of 1791, in which only the title page with publisher and year of publication has been changed, otherwise identical to the first edition. - Waller 6594 - Hirsch-H. IV, 229 - Blake 307 - Garrison-M. 6161 (for edition St. Petersburg 1791): "The importance of this work lies mainly in its splendid life-size engravings". - The splendid plates of high quality, compiled from Smellie, Roederer, Aitken and others and mostly engraved in life-size, make the book one of the most famous works of obstetrics of the 18th century. The work was commissioned by Catherine the Great. - Endpapers and title a little dusty, old name on title, partly browned and stained, some outer text leaves with narrow waterstain. VAT: *
