1674 French Edition of Physician Louis Barles Work on Women's Anatomy
BARLES, Louis (d.1680). 'Les novelles descouvertes sur les organes des femmes servans à la generation. Esemble leur composition, connexion, action and usages. Avec des dissertations suives des remarques curieses and tres-utiles pour la partique des medecins and chirurgiens' (new discoveries concerning the organs of women used for generation. Their composition, connection, action and uses. With dissertations followed by curious and very useful remarks for the practice of physicians and surgeons).
Pub. LYON: Chez Esprit Vitalis, ruë Merciere devant le bout du Monde, 1674. Brief Collation: Title, [9] leaves, 209pp, [3] leaves : 6 plates. Collation: 12° a10 A-I12 ($1-5 signed + A6) 118 leaves; pp. [20] 1-209 [7]. Collation Brief: Title, [9] leaves, 209pp, [3] leaves :: 6 plates. 6 plates inserted facing A6v, D4r, E11v, F5r, F7v, I6v.
Barles refers to himself as 'Medecin aggregé au College de Marseille' He was physician to the Charité in Paris.
Quarter leather (some sunning) with patterned boards, gold leaf title to spine, marbled endpapers, minor foxing and tanning, 1cm tear to p115. Owners: Prigny. Signatures: Signature of Prigny in several places. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell (137x80mm)


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $200-400