MAYGRIER (J.P.) New demonstrations of childbirth. With plates in intaglio, accompanied by a reasoned text to facilitate the explanation, folio format. Paris, Bechet, 1822, folio, half calf, smooth spine, decorated (rel. mod.). ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with 79 plates (pl. 27-28 on double page) hors-texte engraved on steel by Forestier after the drawings of Antoine Chazal. Incomplete with the frontispiece portrait, which is often missing. Some mold, stains and small worm gallery on some plates.