Biology and Medicine

STARK, JOHANN CHRISTIAN.  Lehrbuch der Geburtshuelfe zum Unterricht fuer Hebammen "Mit einer lithogr. Tafel." Jena: in der Bran'schen Buchhandlung, 1837. First Edition. 8½" x 5"; xii + 292 pp. + folding plate. Mottled paper-covered boards and spine, paper title label (but unlettered) on spine, rubbed and worn at edges and corners, hinges worn (but tight). Contemporary ink notes (dated 1839) on endpapers, some foxing throughout, still a decent sound copy.  $50.

Very scarce manual for midwives by Johann Christian Stark (1769-1837), with a nicely engraved lithograph folding plate (some foxing and tearing at the folds). A rare book, WorldCat listing only two copies worldwide. Not in Osler, Garrison-Morton, Norman Collection. Waller does mention two related works, nos. 9195 and 9196.