Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LE BOURSIER DU COUDRAY, ANGÉLIQUE-MARGUÉRITE. Abrégé de l'Art des Accouchements . . . Nouvelle Édition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; 26 engraved obstetrical plates, partly printed in color and hand-finished. xvi, 208 pages. 8vo, later 19th-/early 20th-century paste-paper boards, extremities worn; some plates and text leaves loose, title soiled, clean tear in C2, wormhole through approximately 20 leaves in middle of volume slightly affecting text but not images. Paris: chez De Bure, Père, 1777
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Originally published without illustrations in 1759. "The 1769 edition was the first book on midwifery to appear with the plates printed in multiple colors"--Heirs of Hippocrates 919. Cutter & Viets, page 226.