MIDWIFERY. - M. Henry de DEVENTER. Observations Importantes sur le Manuel des Accouchemens. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier and Pierre Prault, 1739-1733. 4to (250 x 194mm.) Half-title, 2 parts with continuous pagination, 40 'Figures' on 37 engraved plates including 1 folding, mainly of foetal positions, engraved headpieces and initials, errata to rear. (Toning, uniform browning, lower half of last text leaf Hhh4 excised, paper repair to upper margin of errata leaf.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (heavily rubbed, joints split). Note: the second part, dated 1733, is a first edition. The first part, dated 1739, is from a later edition.