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Auction archive: Lot number 24

Bourgeois (Louise). The Compleat Midwife, 1659

Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$634 - US$1,014
Price realised:
£2,900
ca. US$3,678
Auction archive: Lot number 24

Bourgeois (Louise). The Compleat Midwife, 1659

Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$634 - US$1,014
Price realised:
£2,900
ca. US$3,678
Beschreibung:

[Bourgeois, Louise]. The Compleat Midwife's Practice Enlarged … The second edition corrected, by R.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. Practitioners of the said Art. With a full supply of those rare secrets which Mr. Culpeper in his Brief Treatise of Midwifry, and other English writers, have kept close to themselves, concealed, or wholly omitted. Printed for Nath. Brook, 1659, [16], 309, [11], engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, including 2 folding, separate title-page to A Full Supply.., by T. Chamberlaine, very small hole to D1 not affecting text (generally a very good, clean copy), contemporary calf ruled in blind, 8vo (Qty: 1) Wing C1817D; Thomason E.1723[1]. Enlarged edition of the French midwife Louise Bourgeois’ book on obstetrics, Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondité, accouchements, et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz (Paris, 1609), in which she described herself as ‘the first woman practicing my art to take up the pen’. It was translated into German, Dutch, and English, and was influential throughout Europe in the 17th century.

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
26 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

[Bourgeois, Louise]. The Compleat Midwife's Practice Enlarged … The second edition corrected, by R.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. Practitioners of the said Art. With a full supply of those rare secrets which Mr. Culpeper in his Brief Treatise of Midwifry, and other English writers, have kept close to themselves, concealed, or wholly omitted. Printed for Nath. Brook, 1659, [16], 309, [11], engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, including 2 folding, separate title-page to A Full Supply.., by T. Chamberlaine, very small hole to D1 not affecting text (generally a very good, clean copy), contemporary calf ruled in blind, 8vo (Qty: 1) Wing C1817D; Thomason E.1723[1]. Enlarged edition of the French midwife Louise Bourgeois’ book on obstetrics, Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondité, accouchements, et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz (Paris, 1609), in which she described herself as ‘the first woman practicing my art to take up the pen’. It was translated into German, Dutch, and English, and was influential throughout Europe in the 17th century.

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
26 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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