Jean-Louis Baudelocque - L'Art des accouchemens - 1781

Rare two-volume illustrated set with 17 folded plates from this major edition of French obstetrics and a testament to the advances in medicine devoted to pregnancy, birth, and care for women in labor.

French physician and obstetrician born in 1745 and died in 1810, Baudelocque established himself as one of the most influential figures of his era in the art of obstetrics, thanks to his teaching, his clinical experience, and his efforts to establish delivery methods based on anatomical observation and precise knowledge of the mechanisms of birth.

His treatise appears at a time when obstetrics is undergoing a major transformation, gradually shifting from an essentially practical knowledge transmitted among midwives and experienced practitioners to a medical discipline structured by teaching, anatomical description, and comparison of clinical cases.

Jean-Louis Baudelocque - L'Art des accouchemens - 1781 - Tome I et II - Méquignon l'aîné -
610 and 422 pages.

Good condition of bindings, volumes in their full period sheepskin leather, wear expected from handling, minor defects on boards and spine, damaged headcaps, missing one volume’s binding piece, worn spine corners, red edges, spine with raised bands, gold-titled and grooved bindings on morocco pieces, blind-stamped fillets framing the boards –

Good interior condition, browning, plate VI torn, small vignette and manuscript ex-libris on the title, drop caps, volumes enriched with 17 folded plates, third edition of this work by Jean-Louis Baudelocque (1745-1810, renowned physician obstetrician and father of obstetrics), marbled endpapers in fair condition, good copy –

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