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‎Systeme nouveau et complet de L'Art des Accouchements, tant theorique que pratique, Avec la Description des Maladies particulières aux Femmes enceintes, aux Femmes en couche, & aux Enfans nouveau-nés. Traduit de l'Anglois...Par M. Le Moine. Ouvrage ...‎

‎Paris, J.Th. Hérissant, 1771. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine ends a bit worn. A small nick to top of spine. Slightly rubbed. XII,(4),XXII,615,(1) pp. a. 18 folded engraved plates.The 8 first leaves (Dedication and Preface) with a dampstain in lower right corner. Otherwise fine and clean, printed on good paper.‎

‎First French edition. ""Burton was the first to suggest that puerperal fever is contagious"" (Garrison & Morton No. 6268 (Engl. ed.). - Waller No. 1667 (only the Engl. ed.). - Wellcome II, p. 277. There seems to be published an additional part (or is it so that a 12mo-edition from the same year is published in 2 vols.), although the present volume is a finished work.‎