Author: MAYGRIER, JACQUES PIERRE.- Reprints
Title: Nouvelles démonstrations d'accouchemens, Avec des planches en taille-douce, accompagnées d'un texte raisonné - ... format in folio.
Description: Paris, Béchet, 1822. (-1827). [=Reprint in 1 vol. Stuttgart ca. 1975 - 1980].Folio. Atlas and text in 1 volume w. lith. portrait (Chazal del., lith. by Formentin) & 80 stipple engraved pls. (By Antoine Chazal and engr. by Forestier and Couche Fils.). (1 plate double page, being plate 27 and 28). In modern black half clf., over marbled paper brds. (X, 80, II (table) pp., 80- plates, I (colophon reprint). (W. text booklet 'Einführung', 34 pp.). In original slip case. (Published in the series 'Editions Medicina Rara'). Copy number 82 of a limited edition of 300 copies in half clf. Integral facsimile reprint of Maygrier's superb obsterical atlas. Hirsch IV, 136: Bayle & Thill. II, 867: 'Cet ouvrage, publié par souscription, est remarquable par la perfection des planches qui le composent.': Ricci, Development of gynaecological surgery, p. 306/7, 343/4: Hahn & Dumaitre, p. 351, 356: Hagelin, The Womans Booke, p. 141/3: 'The rare first edition of Maygrier's major work, THE BEST AND MOST MAGNIFICENT OBSTETRICAL ATLAS of the 19th c. It was originally issued in 20 parts over a period of 5 years with 4 pls. in each part. The splendid illustrations are executed with utmost skill and artistry. The instructive and pedagogical plates were drawn by the celebrated artist Antoine Chazal, and stipple engraved by Forestier and Couche fils. ...[the pls. in Maygrier's atlas were Chazal's] first medical ones. ...Maygrier's atlas is seldom found complete, as often happens with books issued in parts over a long period, and certain desirable plates are often removed by 'connoisseurs'.': Waller, 6375: Wellcome IV, 91: Royal College of Obstetricians STC, p. 53: Heirs of Hippocrates, 1261: The plates 'cover virtually every phase of childbirth including pelvic deformities, pelvimetry, transverse presentation, cesarean section, the use of forceps, and even a section of infant feeding and lactation.': Cushing M 230: Fine facsimile.

Keywords: facsimiles illustrated Gynaecology obstetrics lithography child birth medicine anatomical