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
Théâtre à la maison (Theatre at home) by B. Vadier
Circa 1880
Splendid publisher’s binding with cardboard plates from the Hetzel Collection
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1750
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
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.
De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)
By M. de Lignac - Volume 3
Anatomy of procreation - 1779
Butterfly - Natural History color plate
Entomology
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
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.
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Le Jardin des Plantes
Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum
By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851
A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.
Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu
Anthropology - End of the XIXth century
20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé
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
Manual of the Naturalist Preparer followed by a Treaty of Embalmings
by BOITARD - Book of 1853
5 fold-out plates at the end of the volume with beautiful engravings
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1749
Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates
Butterflies - Natural History of France
Musée scolaire DEYROLLE - Original Edition of 1886 by Berce
Illustrated with 27 plates including 26 in colors - By Berce
Le corps de l'Homme
Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves
By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs
No date, circa 1900
Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples
Universal dictionnary of Simple Drugs
By Nicolas Lemery
An antique illustrated pharmacopoeia from 1727 - A Dutch pirated edition
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...
