Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
BLONDEL, JAMES AUGUSTUS. The Power of the Mother's Imagination over the Foetus Examin'd. In Answer to Dr. Daniel Turner's Book [etc.]. [2], xi, [3], 143, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked, spine rubbed; light toning and foxing. London: John Brotherton, 1729

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first edition. Blondel and Turner engaged in a dispute over the alleged power of a pregnant woman's imagination to produce physical changes in the fetus, a theory set forth in Turner's 1714 treatise on dermatology and refuted by Blondel.