Author: (BELLET, ISAAC)
Title: Lettres sur le pouvoir de l'imagination des femmes enceintes. Où l 'on combat le préjugé qui attribue à l'imagination des Mères le pouvoir d'imprimer sur le Corps des Enfans renfermés dans leur Sein la figure des objets qui les ont frappées.
Description: Paris, Chez les Frères Guerin, rue S. Jacques, à S. Thomas d'Acquin, vis-à-vis les Mathurins, 1745. Sm. 8vo. W. small woodc. vign. on pr. title. Original paper brds., w. original paper title shield. (Covers spotted, upper outer hinge some loss of paper over 6-8 cm, 3 mm wide). [a6 (erratic signing), A8, B4, C8 etc. ...S4, T6 (half sheet imposition)]. (XII, 226, II (Privilege) pp.). (PP. 73 - 96 a vague watersp. to upper righthand corner.). (Occasional foxing and a few spots.; last few lvs. (pp. 199 - to end) a small wormtrace ca 1 cm.). ). (Bookplate prof. Hector Treub on upper free endp.). (All edges red.). (Shelf mark on upper cover.). Barbier II, 1300: Hirsch I, 444/5: Jourdain II, 121: Wellcome II, 139. 33 letters discussing the notion that pregnant women could imprint notions / images into their unborn children by means of the powers of imagination.

Keywords: gynaecology obstetrics psychology psychiatry Toon medicine psyche pregnancy child birth zwangerschap imprinting bookplates H. Bibl. van der Hoeven Ex Bibliotheca