SIGAUD DE LA FOND Joseph Aignan. DICTIONARY OF... Lot 47

SIGAUD DE LA FOND Joseph Aignan. DICTIONARY OF THE WONDERS OF NATURE, containing profound researches on the nature of childbirth, wrenching, echoes, evacuations, pregnancies, diseases, eaters, extraordinary divers, antipathy, corpses, catalepsy, brain, hair, foreign bodies in man's, etc. New edition. PARIS, DESRAY, 1790. Two volumes, in-8, V pp. 493 pp. - title, 476 pp. and (2) ff. 42 pp. half-bound in brown basane. Ornate gilded smooth spines with red Moroccan title-pieces, yellow speckled in red. Small tear to headpiece. The famous surgeon and obstetrician Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de La Fond also published several works on physics. In this one, he lists a number of curious phenomena: extraordinary abstinence; divining rods; corpses ; caves; brains; teeth; precocious children; underground fires; extraordinary pregnancies; sailors; spontaneous fires fires; language; mofettes; apparent death; dwarfs; hurricanes; extraordinary divers; salamanders; superfetation ; earthquakes; volcanoes; etc. The last 42 pages contain "Exposé des opérations ordonnées dans les carrières sous Paris et plaines adjacentes".