DOEVEREN, Wouter van.

Groningae: Apud Jacobum Bolt, .1762

4to, 2 leaves + 46 pages. Dedication leaf browned, minor spotting on the title and last leaves. Modern wrappers.

FIRST EDITION of van Doeveren’s rectorial address as professor of medicine, surgery and obstetrics at the University of Groningen. Doeveren (1730–1783), a member of a prominent Dutch medical family, took his medical degree at Leyden and later studied surgery and obstetrics in Paris. Lindeboom, Dutch medical biography, cols. 459–461.

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