Author: STRATZ, C.H.
Title: Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers. Den Müttern, Ärzten und Künstlern gewidmet. Mit 96 theils farbigen Abbildungen im Text und 4 Tafeln in Heliogravüre. 5te Auflage.
Description: Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke, 1899. 24 x 16 cm. Original decorated light green cloth. XII, 240 p. Top gilt. Richly illustrated with beautiful photos and graphs. 5th edition, identical to the third and fourth. 4 pages of publisher advertisements. Very good copy, inside fine. 'The Beauty of the Female Body'. Attractive book with four fine photoengravings printed in pinkish orange. The author mentions several artists who advised him for third edition of this book (identical to this one), a.o. Abraham Lopes Suasso, Theodor Alt, H.W. Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten, The gynaecologist C.H. Stratz (1858-1924) was the first to study corporeal development in healthy youth. He published several books comparing women from a scientific point of view, but always with a festive eye.

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