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DEVENTER, Hendrik van

Operationum chirurgicarum novum lumen obstetricantibus

Lugduni Batavorum
J. & H. Verbeek
1733

€120 - €180

2 parts in 1 vol. in-4to, without portrait, 40 engraved plates on 36 sheets, some folding, with blank leaf at beginning of second part, one plate with marginal tear, contemporary half vellum, no paper on covers, uncut, good copy

The first accurate description of the female pelvis and its deformities, by the founder of modern obstetrics. The third Latin edition, the second to include the second part which was published originally in Dutch in 1719. Ref. Waller 2423; Wellcome II p.480

Medicine