Bursa, Carlo (fl. 1819), Surgeon, Turin

Elementi sopra l'Arte dei Parti con Dimande e Risposte del fu G L Baudelocque e Compendiati in favore delle Levatrici Piemontesi ... 1819. Manual of obstetrics for the use of midwives, prepared by Carlo Bursa, with lithograph illustrations of fetal presentations. The manual is based on Principes sur l'art des accouchemens, par demandes et réponses, en faveur des sages-femmes de la campagne, by Jean-Louis Baudelocque (1745-1810), first published in 1787. This book, based in its turn on an earlier work entitled Catéchisme sur l'art des accouchements pour sages-femmes de la campagne (Soissons: 1775), by Anne Aimable Augier du Fot, was in the form of a catechism designed for elementary instruction of the unlettered. It contained engravings of fetal presentations intended to remind midwives of the most common positions, as Baudelocque explained in the preface. These engravings are reproduced in lithograph at the end of the manuscript, although renumbered and unattributed.

c.1819

74 ff. 1 vol., 305 x 210 mm., Brown paper-covered boards. Rebacked in calf.

1 vol., 305 x 210 mm., Brown paper-covered boards. Rebacked in calf.

Purchased from Pickering and Chatto, 1998.

Ownership inscription (f. 1r.): Agostina Arena Calvas.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts