ASTRUC, Jean. Traité des Maladies des Femmes... - Lot 15

ASTRUC, Jean. Traité des Maladies des Femmes... Paris, P. Guillaume Cavelier, 1761 4 volumes in 4 vols. in-16 Glazed lavalier calf, guilloché ribbed spines decorated with gilded caissons and fleurons, brown and red titles on morocco, gilded fillet at the elbows, ornate chasses with gilded roulette, red edges. XXXII+350, VIII+423, XI+443 and XVI+364+(2 f.) pages, a folding frontispiece and 4 copper plates. One flyleaf, the others a little rubbed, jaws slightly tired, rubbed elbows, rounded corners, some foxing. A pioneering and comprehensive work on diseases affecting the female organs. It is illustrated with 4 folding copper plates, as well as a frontispiece portrait of the author drawn by Louis Vigée (1715-1767) and engraved by Jean Daullé, engraver to King Louis XV (1703-1763). This edition is divided into two books, each in two volumes: Des Maladies des Femmes causées par les Règles, and Des Maladies des Femmes qui dépendent de l'état de la Matrice. Pleasant volumes for this original gynecological series of the period.