Pancoast's Tokology and Ladies' Medical Guide: [The Ladies' New Medical Guide]

Octavo. Publisher's decorative grey-green cloth stamped in black, gilt, and bronze on front board and spine; marbled edges. Mild fraying and small punctures along front outer hinge; light chipping to spine head/tail; spotting and shelf soil to rear board. Interior lightly toned; includes red-ink frontispiece portrait and color anatomical chromolithographs with layered lift-flap anatomical plates (movable manikin flap parts showing wear/splitting with plate and separate twin fetus flap laid in). Some separation from first few pages before frontispiece. Remaining binding tight. A 19th century domestic guide to female physiology, obstetrics, embryology, marriage hygiene, and home treatments by Philadelphia physician Seth Pancoast, revised and enlarged by Wm. Wesley Cook. Features color anatomical plates and interactive layered manikins illustrating internal organ systems and reproductive anatomy. K4. .