75/2318 [Medicine]. Mauriceau, F. Tractaet van de siektens der swangere vrouwen en Der gene die eerst gebaert hebben. Aenwysende de rechte en ware manier om de Vrouwen in hare natuurlyke baringen wel te helpen, de geboortens tegens de natuur te recht te brengen, en de siektens der jong-geborene Kinderen te genesen. Amst., A. Magnus, (1683), (16),408,(23)p., engr. frontisp., 30 (of 31) (full-p.) engr. ills., contemp. vellum, sm. 4to.

- Lacks 2 text lvs. (C2 and C3) w. 1 ill.; partly (water)stained and fingersoiled. Joints split(ting); frontcover loose(ning).

= BMN I, p.342; Garrison/ Morton 6147 (French ed.): "The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair (...). This book established obstetrics as a science."; Hagelin, The womans booke p.65-67; Norman Library 1461 (French ed.); Bibliotheca Walleriana 6362; Krivatsky 7595. The first Dutch edition.