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Dissertation sur l’incertitude des signes de la mort, et l’abus des enterremens by WINSLOW, Jakob Benignus ; BRUHIER, Jacques-Jean, tr

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Dissertation sur l’incertitude des signes de la mort, et l’abus des enterremens
Author
WINSLOW, Jakob Benignus ; BRUHIER, Jacques-Jean, tr
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Paris: Morel, Prault, and Simon, 1742. Contemporary mottled calf (edges worn), spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled red, green silk marker. Contemporary inscriptions, pen trials, and calculations on the flyleaves and half-title, ownership inscriptions of Marie de Varrennes. In excellent condition [Bound with :] BRUHIER, Jacques-Jean Memoire sur la nécessité d’un réglement général au sujet des enterremens. Paris : Morel, Prault, and Simon 1745. 8vo. 36 pp. First edition thus, a medical treatise on premature burials. Winslow asserts that the signs of death accepted by the medical community are unreliable and lead to the interrment of living people, and supplies several case studies of individuals who had been dissected, buried, and left in a morgue only to be revived. He claims that only the onset of putrefaction can adequately prove death and offers a number of tests to revive a person who appears dead : put horseradish under the nostrils, tickle with a feather, whip the body repeatedly, pour vinegar into the mouth, cut the feet with razors, shove pins under the toenails, and, as a last resort, shove a hot poker into the anus. It was originally published in 1740 as a short dissertation in Latin ; it’s 29 pages are reproduced here in the frontmatter. The pamphlet caught the attention of Parisian physician Jacques-Jean Bruhier, who approached Winslow and offered to do a vernacular translation. He added a great deal of notes, case studies, and scholarly material. The success of his edition spurred additional translations as well as criticism across Europe. The second text offered here is Bruhier’s prospectus for a nationally-mandated checklist of death signs that must be completed before death can be pronounced. Bondeson, Buried Alive 51-71.
Marriage Costumes of Various Nations

Marriage Costumes of Various Nations by ACKERMANN, R

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Marriage Costumes of Various Nations
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ACKERMANN, R
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Ursus Books (United States)
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1820. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. Marriage Costumes of Various Nations. Illustrated with 12 hand-coloured aquatint engravings printed on card stock. Cards measure 120 x 90 mm., loose in the original publisher's glazed gray paper covered slipcase with green printed paper label on top cover and extra plate on the rear cover, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. London: Ackermann Repository of Arts, [1820]. A rare Ackermann publication. The twelve hand-coloured aquatints illustrate twelve brides and a grooms wearing different wedding costumes based on local traditions from regions throughout Europe: Austrians, Poles, Spaniards, Scottish, Turks, Russians, Italians, Swiss, Africans, Illyrians, Hungarians and Styrians. They are nicely executed and the colours are fresh and bright. Fine in the original box. Not found in Tooley, Abbey, Hardie, Lipperheide, Colas or Hiler.

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