obstetrics

First edition in German of Baudelocque’s fundamental textbook of obstetrics Principes sur l’art des accouchemens (1775 and 1787), presentation copy from the translator to a named midwife, given as a prize at the Colmar school for midwives which he established in 1803.
Gabriel Louis François Anaclet Morel was born in Colmar in 1769 and died there in 1842 under the July Monarchy. He was mayor of Colmar from 1813 to 1814 and from 1830 to 1841. A doctor and surgeon, in 1803,he founded the first school of midwives in Colmar Worldcat: no copy outside France/Switzerland/Germany.