[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce work on pediatrics. London: 1710

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(MEDICINE) Quillet, Claude. CALLIPAEDIAE; OR, AN ART HOW TO HAVE HANDSOME 
CHILDREN: Written in Latin by the Abbot Quillet. To Which Is Added, 
Paedotrophiae; or, the Art of Nursing and Breeding Up Children: Written in Latin by 
Monsieur St. Marthe... Now Done Into English Verse. London: John Morphew. 
1710. 8vo. (8),264pp. 2 parts in 1. Cont. panelled calf. Short splits at top & 
bottom of hinges, but very sound. Very minor worming at bottom of title.     
$850.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first edition of both parts “Callipaediae” and “Paedotrophiae” 
published together. This is Foxon C4. There is another 1710 English edition 
(published by B. Linton) which is only the text of Callipaediae; this is Foxon 
O142. Scarce. Not in the National Library of Medicine.