L'art de procréer les sexes à volonté, ou Histoire physiologique de la génération humaine [...]. Quatrième édition.

8vo: xiv-398 pp.; 8 pl. (foxing).

Contemp. marbled calf, flat gilt decorated spine, green leather title-label, marbled edges (rubbed, sm. lack on tailcap).

Uncommon fourth edition (1st 1800) of this curious anonymous treatise attributed to Millot (1738-1811), "chirurgien-accoucheur" to Marie-Antoinette and the Duchesses of Orleans and Bourbon. Ill. with 8 pl. (5 fold. with 10 fig.), most of them showing human (and some animal) monsters. The author gives his recipes against sterility or malformations and a method to procreate boys or girls, as desired!
Ref. Barbier I:294. - Wellcome IV:139 (1st ed.). - CCFr (only 3 copies of the 4th ed.). - Not in Bibl. Walleriana, Norton.