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Hand-Colored Obstetric Atlas 1837

Title: Traité Pratique des Accouchemens - Atlas Volume
Author: Moreau, F.J.
Description: 60 hand-colored lithograph plates, each with a page of descriptive letterpress. (Folio) 16¼x11½, old marbled boards with modern cloth re-backing. First Edition.Rare with the plates in the colored state. "The art of obstetrics was advanced considerably in nineteenth-century France, and Moreau, a member of the Medical Faculty of Paris, was one of its most active clinicians and writers." Heirs of Hippocrates 1454.
Heading: Place Published: Paris
Publisher: Germer Bailliere
Date Published: 1837