Aristotle's Master-Piece Completed. In Two Parts. The first containing the secrets of generation in all the parts thereof. Treating of the benefit of marriage, and the prejudice of unequal matches, signs of insufficiency in men or women … The second part being A private looking-glass for the female sex. Treating of the various maladies of the womb, and all other distempers incident to women of all ages, with proper remedies for the cure of each. The whole being more correct than any thing of this kind hitherto published.
New York: Printed for the Company of Flying Stationers, 1793.
Price: $750.00
About the item
Woodcut illustrations in text. v, [1 blank], [7]-130 pp. LACKING frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. Later three quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Evans 25120; ESTC W6202; Austin, Early American medical imprints, 61.
Item #303784
An eighteenth century American edition of this popular sex manual and midwifery book, first published in England in 1684. It discusses matters of anatomy, sexual intercourse, and childbirth, including questions concerning fertility, determining the sex of the fetus, what to do and not do during pregnancy, amongst others.
