Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 201
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
ALBERTUS MAGNUS, attributed to. De secretis mulierum [and other texts]. 358, [13] pages, including engraved title. 12mo, contemporary vellum; some light dampstaining in outer corners, scored inscription in blank upper margin of page 3. Amsterdam: apud Jodocum Janssonium, 1648

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Popular work on obstetrics and women's health, largely astrological and superstitious in content, first published circa 1475 and widely reprinted and translated. Krivatsy 119; Sarton II, 941.