Curious treatise on embryology.1762.
First french edition
CANGIAMILA (F.E.). Abrégé de l'embryologie sacrée.
Paris, Nyon, 1762.
450 €
12mo( 16.2x9.5 cm), xxiv-428-(3) pages. binding: Contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece, red edges. Small wormhole (< 2mm) on margin. Small wormhole on lower cover.
Rare first French edition of this curious treatise on embryology.
The author discusses ways to prevent abortion, the need for caesarean section during difficult childbirth or when the mother died, of prematurity and conditions of the baptism of infants (monsters, children resuscitated after apparent death, children held in the matrix, ...).
nice copy.
