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MOHRENHEIM, Joseph (1755-1799). Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst. St Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1791.
Large broadside 2° (520 x 405mm). Title with engraved vignette, 46 engraved plates, engraved vignettes and tailpieces in text. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with green morocco label (worn and rubbed). Provenance: Karolinska Insitute Library, Stockholm (duplicate).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINELY-ILLUSTRATED RUSSIAN WORK ON OBSTETRICS, a well preserved copy. 'The importance of this work lies mainly in its splendid life-sized engravings, some of which were taken from Smellie. It includes a brief literary history of obstetrics' (Garrison and Morton). Mohrenheim was summoned to St Petersburg by Catherine the Great in 1783 to be Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics. The Empress was responsible for several innovations in the practice of obstetrics in Russia. She commissioned the present book, the second Russian book on the subject, and underwrote the considerable expense of its production and publication. Because of its rarity, it has escaped the notice of historians of obstetrics in the West (including Speert, Iconographia), and is not in many collections. Some of the plates are by the author and are original, and others are taken from Smellie, Roederer, and others. They represent embryos, the foetus in utero, deliveries, instruments, etc. The engraving was done entirely by Russian artists. Blake, p.307; Garrison and Morton 6161; Cutter and Viets, pp. 228-9.
Large broadside 2° (520 x 405mm). Title with engraved vignette, 46 engraved plates, engraved vignettes and tailpieces in text. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with green morocco label (worn and rubbed). Provenance: Karolinska Insitute Library, Stockholm (duplicate).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINELY-ILLUSTRATED RUSSIAN WORK ON OBSTETRICS, a well preserved copy. 'The importance of this work lies mainly in its splendid life-sized engravings, some of which were taken from Smellie. It includes a brief literary history of obstetrics' (Garrison and Morton). Mohrenheim was summoned to St Petersburg by Catherine the Great in 1783 to be Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics. The Empress was responsible for several innovations in the practice of obstetrics in Russia. She commissioned the present book, the second Russian book on the subject, and underwrote the considerable expense of its production and publication. Because of its rarity, it has escaped the notice of historians of obstetrics in the West (including Speert, Iconographia), and is not in many collections. Some of the plates are by the author and are original, and others are taken from Smellie, Roederer, and others. They represent embryos, the foetus in utero, deliveries, instruments, etc. The engraving was done entirely by Russian artists. Blake, p.307; Garrison and Morton 6161; Cutter and Viets, pp. 228-9.
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