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Concept

Fertility

Images

  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • A tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues; representing the life of the Christian. Coloured etching by J. Couse, c. 1780, after J. Bakewell.
  • Ceres on a chariot with children representing the months March, April and May, surrounded by forms of natural abundance, corybantes and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Etching by A. Tempesta, 1592.
  • De la grossesse et accouchement des femmes, du gouvernement dicelles et moyen de survenir aux accidents qui leur arrivent, ensemble de la nourriture des enfans / Par Jacques Guillemeau. Reveu [sic] et augmenté de figures en taille douce, et de plusieurs maladies secrettes. Avec un traitte de l'impuissance, par Charles Guillemeau.
  • Nymphs in a field among cornucopias; workers scythe wheat; representing horticulture and agriculture. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, c. 1810, after H. Corbould.
  • Diana of the Ephesians (Ephesian Artemis), with a shepherd boy playing pipes. Etching by P.A. Novelli.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs: symbolising the element earth. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
  • Sarasvati sitting on lotuses plying her vina. Watercolour drawing.
  • The birth of King Louis XIII. Engraving by B. Audran the elder after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.
  • A naked man walks through a rocky landscape with a scythe; representing summer. Etching by J. Coelemans, 1703, after L. Cardi da Cigoli.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The rhythm of sterility and fertility in women : a discussion of the physiological, practical, and ethical aspects of the discoveries of Drs. K. Ogino (Japan) and H. Knaus (Germany) regarding the periods when conception is impossible and when possible / by Leo J. Latz.

    Latz, Leo J. (Leo John), 1903- | Date: [1954], ©1954
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    Demographic trends in the European region : health and social implications / edited by Alan D. Lopez and Robert L. Cliquet.

    | Date: [1984], ©1984
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    A child against all odds / Robert Winston.

    Winston, Robert M. L. | Date: 2006
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    The global family planning revolution : three decades of population policies and programs / Warren C. Robinson and John A. Ross, editors.

    | Date: [2007], ©2007
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    Romania's 1966 anti-abortion decree : the demographic experience of the first decade / Bernard Berelson.

    Berelson, Bernard, 1912-1979. | Date: 1978
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