Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MEDICINE.) Nützliches und Sehr Bewährt Befundenes Weiber-Büchlein: Enhalt Aristotelis und Alberti Magni Hebammen-Kunst. 12mo, original patterned wrappers backed with marbled paper; foxed with moderate wear. Ephrata, PA, 1822

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Second edition. A work on midwifery which purports to derive from Aristotle and Albertus Magnus, but has also been attributed to German-American occultist Johann Georg Hohman. Shaw-Shoemaker 7830.