May 02, 2005 - Sale 2041

Sale 2041 - Lot 11

Unsold
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
ARISTOTLE, falsely attributed to. Aristotle's Compleat and Experienced Midwife. In Two Parts. I. Guide for Child-Bearing Women in the Time of their Conception . . . II. Proper and Safe Remedies for the Curing all those Distempers that are incident in the Female Sex . . . Made English by W---- S----, M.D. The Eleventh Edition. 165, [3] pages, including woodcut frontispiece showing childbirth scene; lacks the folding plate. 12mo, contemporary sheep, covers warped, joints cracked at top; early owner's inscriptions on title verso and page 120, clean tear across F5. London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, [1760?]

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One of 2 distinct "eleventh" editions published circa 1760. ESTC locates only the NLM and University of Texas/Moody Medical Library copies of this edition, and only the British Library copy of the other.