A high-quality copperplate engraving features a portrait of Paulus Portal within an oval frame. He is a middle-aged man with long, voluminous curly hair, wearing a white rabat, or clerical collar, over dark robes. He is shown from the chest up, with his right hand resting on a stack of books at the bottom right. The oval border contains identifying text, and the background within the oval is shaded with cross-hatching.

PAULUS PORTAL SWORN SURGEON

AND MAN-MIDWIFE IN PARIS.

THE PRACTICE

OF

MAN-MIDWIVES,

AND

MIDWIVES,

The way to help a woman in her

Childbirth.

Confirmed with a large number of

OBSERVATIONS.

PAULUS PORTAL,

Sworn Surgeon and Man-Midwife in

Paris.

Translated from the French into the Dutch language,

With Copper Plates.

A small decorative woodcut vignette depicts a woven basket overflowing with various flowers and leafy branches.

in AMSTERDAM,

By TIMOTHEUS ten HOORN, Bookseller,

in the Nes, next to the Brakke Grond, at the Sign of the Idea,

Anno 1690.

With Privilege for fifteen years.