Mémoire sur les bouts de seins, ou mamelons artificiels et les biberons

First edition. Blue printed soft cover. Cover rubbed, some tears and missing spine.

Very rare essay on feeding bottles by the famous obstetrician Louis-Charles De­neux. He assisted the Duchess of Berry with the birth of the duke of Bordeaux, last legitimate descendant of Louis XV of France in the male line.

Presented before the Paris Academy of Medicine, of which he was a member of the surgical section, at the sessions of 12 and 19 February 1833. Deneux was the nephew and pupil of the famous Baudelocque, from whom he took courses in surgery and childbirth from 1782 to 1789.

Provenance: Mr Duval, penciled ex-libris on the cover; this could be François Marie Mathurin Duval, surgeon elected national correspondent of the Academy of Medicine on January 2 1827.
OCLC lists only two copies in America (Harvard, Williams College).