De l'indécence aux hommes d'accoucher les femmes, et De l'obligation aux femmes de nourrir leurs enfans [...].

12mo: [18]-94, [14]-145-[7] pp. (some spotting and browning).

Contemp. calf (upper corner rubbed), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (head and tail sl. def.), sp. edges, marbled endpapers.

First edition of this polemical work by Ph. Hecquet (1661-1737), French physician at Port-Royal between 1688 and 1693 and later doctor of the Condé family.
Ref. Blake 202. - BGL I:800. - Conlon, Prélude, 14287. - Wellcome III:232.
Joined: [Panckoucke, Charles-Joseph] - De l'homme et de la réproduction des différens individus. Paris, [i.e. Lille, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke], 1761. 12mo: [2]-viii-214 pp. Contemp. sheep (corners rubbed), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (joints starting to split, spine rubbed), sp. edges. First edition. Ref. Blake 337. - Barbier II:857. - BnF. - [Milot, Jacques-André] - L'art de procréer les sexes à volonté, ou Histoire physiologique de la génération humaine. Paris, Migneret, s.d. 8vo: xiv-398 pp. Contemp. tree calf, gilt orn. flat spine (head def.), red leather title label, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Fourth edition. Ill. with 9 engr. pl. (of which some fold.). Ref. BnF. (3 vol.)