Null Medicine - Millot, Jacques André. The art of determining the sex of the chi…

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Medicine - Millot, Jacques André. The art of determining the sex of the child to be conceived at the time of conception, together with a critical examination of all theories of conception and a complete system of this important natural process. From the French with annotations and additions, with engraved frontispiece and 8 illustrations on 4 copper plates. Leipzig, Reinicke, 1802. XXX, 338 pp. 16 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary paperback with spine label (rubbed). First German edition. - Hirsch/H. IV, 212 - A little stained in places. VAT: *

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Medicine - Millot, Jacques André. The art of determining the sex of the child to be conceived at the time of conception, together with a critical examination of all theories of conception and a complete system of this important natural process. From the French with annotations and additions, with engraved frontispiece and 8 illustrations on 4 copper plates. Leipzig, Reinicke, 1802. XXX, 338 pp. 16 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary paperback with spine label (rubbed). First German edition. - Hirsch/H. IV, 212 - A little stained in places. VAT: *

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