Aristotle’s Works. Illustrated. Containing the Masterpiece. Directions for Midwives, Counsel and Advice to Child-Bearing Women. With Various Useful Remedies.

London: For the Booksellers, No date.
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14cm x 9cm. 352 pages, 6 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Original red cloth, gilt lettering, black decoration, all edges red.

Pocket edition of the under-the-counter guide to sex, pregnancy and childbirth, the most widely read sex and midwifery manual in English, in print from 1684. This edition gathers the ‘Masterpiece’ on marriage, conception and monstrous births with the midwifery treatise, ‘Aristotle’s Book of Problems’, a section on physiognomy, ‘The Midwife’s Vade-Mecum’, and a closing section on venereal disease.

Very minor soiling to edges. Minor to moderate tanning. Very Good Condition.

AU$50