Lot 358
Cassini, Jacques
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
£275
Description
Tables astronomiques du soleil, de la lune. Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1740. 4to, 2 parts in one volume, 5 folding plates, errata leaf, contemporary calf, RCSI library stamps on title, slightly spotted, extremities worn [Adams W243; M1837. cf. Haskell F. Norman Lot 231]
Footnote
Note: First edition of the "first encyclopedia of gynaecology", originally conceived by Conrad Gesner. Wolff expanded Gesner's material and published it a year after his death. Bound with Moschion text on midwifery, the earliest text specifically for midwives, based on the teachings of his mentor Soranus (Haskell F. Norman, 1998)