L'art de procréer les sexes à volonté - The art of procreating sexes at will
By Millot - With illustrated plates
Antique book from 1802 (Year X of the Republic) - Third edition
The author explains how to procreate boys and girls, and gives his recipes for treating sterility and malformations...
“L'Art de procréer les sexes à volonté augmentée de la Solution à plusieurs questions faites à l'auteur, spécialement du moyen de rendre fécondes les femmes dont la stérilité dépend de la conformation intérieure”
The art of procreating the sexes at will, expanded to include the solution to several questions posed to the author, in particular the means of making women fertile, whose infertility depends on their inner constitution.
By Millot (Jacques-André)
Third edition published in 1802 - Germinal An X of the Republic
Millot was a Dijon-born surgeon who published his Art de procréer les sexes à volonté (Art of procreating the sexes at will), illustrated with fold-out plates showing Siamese twins and animals - pigs, calves, six-legged dogs - that are only remotely related to the book's subject.
The author indicates how to procreate boys or girls, and gives his recipes for dealing with sterility or malformations.
Although at first glance it may appear to be a hoax, this treatise was written with the utmost seriousness; relegated to the status of a pipe dream today, it was a great success at the time, being published several times.
“(According to Créhange in his book Les livres anciens de médecine et de pharmacie).
The book contains 6 engravings, some of them folding, of the original 8, 2 are missing.
Bound in full contemporary leather, with a defect on the spine of the first cover, but otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions: In-8: 20 x 12.3 cm
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1749
Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates
Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal
Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden
Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans
Fourth edition
Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.
Manuel complet de Physique et de Météorologie - Complete Manual of Physics and Meteorology
By Ajasson de Grandsagne and L. Fouché
Second edition published in Brussels in 1835
Illustrated with 6 folding plates depicting more than 250 figures. (torn: see photos)
Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé
From Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des organes des sens de l'homme avec leur mode de préparation
Published in 1866
Lithography
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)
By M. de Lignac - Volume 3
Anatomy of procreation - 1779
Man - Anatomical chart that can be disassembled
By Fernand Nathan Editeur publisher
Coloured chart with movable, cut-out and superimposed leaves
There are defects on the superimposed boards; the outer board, which was the man's torso, is missing, as are the lungs, which were above the heart. The left hand is missing, the arm being torn.
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Le corps de l'Homme
Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves
By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs
No date, circa 1900
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1750
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Le langage des fleurs
The Language of Flowers
Published in 1848
Antique book on the symbolism of flowers
Illustrated with 20 beautiful colored plates
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
A Treatise on Surgery
By Dr Reclus and Dr Duplay
Antique illustrated book from 1891
Volume 4
Anatomie de L'Homme - circa 1845
Volume 4 Atlas: Apparatus of nutrition - Angelology - Organs of circulation and respiration
Followed by his Atlas in black and white
By Dr. Bourgery and illustrator Jacob
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Anatomical chart by Paulet and Sarazin
From the Traité d'anatomie topographique (Treatise on topographical anatomy)
Published in 1867-1870
Chromolithography
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Pocket Atlas of Butterflies of France, Switzerland and Belgium
Published in 1912
This is not a reprint, but the original edition
Please note: 1 loose sheet, see photos
L'art de procréer les sexes à volonté - The art of procreating sexes at will
By Millot - With illustrated plates
Antique book from 1802 (Year X of the Republic) - Third edition
The author explains how to procreate boys and girls, and gives his recipes for treating sterility and malformations...
