DEVENTER, HENDRIK VAN. Observations Importantes sur le Manuel des Accouchemens. 37 engraved plates. xxxix, [1], 431, [2] pages, including half-title and final errata leaf. 4to, contemporary calf gilt, short crack in joints; marginal soiling on half-title, occasional light offsetting from plates. Karolinska Institutet stamp in blank lower margin of 2 text leaves (duplicate, with ticket on front flyleaf). Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1739
Second edition of the 1733 French translation of Deventer's 1701 manual of obstetrics. "This work gives the first accurate description of the female pelvis and its deformities, and the effect of the later in complicating labour"--Garrison-Morton 6253 (original edition in Dutch).
