[Rarebooks] FS: 1800 Gyanologie XIV: Pseudo-Medical/Home/Marriage Guide w/Color Plates

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Gynaologie. XIV. Erstes Supplement oder XIV Bundchen. Die Kunst
mit Weibern glücklich zu sein”

By C. G. Flittner.
Published in Berlin in 1800.

DISCUSSION: The fourteenth volume of this curious set whose volumes
explored the mysteries and secrets of happy family life and marriage,
including details on health, moral and physical well-being and sex
(sixteen titles were eventually published). This volume covers how to make
women happy (the short answer seems to be marry them, though he goes into
more detail).

Christian Gottfried Flittner [1770-1828] was a doctor and pharmacist who
wrote a number of pseudoscientific and medical books for a popular
audience, "in the spirit of the Berlin enlightenment".

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 4"x6", xvi + 175 pages, 5 engraved hand-colored
plates (including the title page).

CONDITION NOTES: Bound in period boards with leather tips and a leather
spine with gilt decorations. Covers a bit worn, slight internal soil and a
little scattered light foxing, small institutional mark on the title page.

PRICE: $150 -

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