Medicine Seligmann, Johann Michael Collection of 5 mezzotint etchings. Plates II-VI from: Demonstrations of a Pregnant Uterus of a Woman at Her Full Term. / Demonstratio uteri praegnantis mulieris cum foetu ad partum maturi tabulis (...) ea methodo dispositis, ut hujus status gravidi amplam ob oculos ideam collecent (...). Nuremberg, c. 1761, each mezzotint on laid paper. Each c. 58.5 x 42 cm (64 x 47.5 cm). Each with engraved inscr. Inscription in the plate. Wellcome III, p. 354 - Wellcome Collection, xat3553z. - Engraved by Johann Michael Seligmann, after drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk. - Impressive depictions of a pregnant woman from an anatomical point of view, whereby the virtuoso lighting and the masterfully executed materiality of the drapery and the skin of the sitter also testify to great artistic quality. - Each with smoothed centrefold, somewhat more heavily stained (also verso) and with marginal tears, 2 pp. with dampstains. Good overall. Excellent, high-contrast impressions, each with narrow margins. Medicine - Collection of 5 mezzotint etchings. Plates II-VI. Each mezzotint on laid paper. Each with engraved inscription in the plate. - Engraved by Johann Michael Seligmann, after drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk. - Impressive depictions of a pregnant woman from an anatomical point of view, whereby the virtuoso lighting and the masterfully executed materiality of the drapery and the skin of the figure also testify to great artistic quality. - Each with smoothed centrefold, somewhat more stained (also verso) and with marginal tears, 2 pp. with dampstains. Overall good. Excellent, high-contrast impressions, each with narrow margins.