Roederer, Johann Georg. Elementa artis obstetricae in usum praelectionum academicarum. Aucta et emendata. 9 Bl., 364 pp., 8 Bl. With engraved portrait and engraved title vignette. 18 x 11,5 cm. Semi-leather d. Time with RSchild, gold plating and oxidized gold embossing "Kgl. Medicinal-Collegium" at the foot (something rubbed, resolutions leimschattig). Göttingen, Vandenhoeck, 1759. Hirsch-Hübotter IV, 846. Waller I, 8067. Blake 385. – Second edition of the book, published for the first time in 1753, "in excellent presentation, in clear yet crowded ... Language ... in a well-ordered order teaches the principles of birth aid" (Siebold II, 439). It is considered to be "the first textbook of obstetrics written by a German, which meets the requirements of science", and his excellent anatomical knowledge came to his aid. He thus raised "the German birth grants from the state of a despised trade ... to a noble science and art" (Hirsch-Hübotter). – A little sticky.