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CASTRO, RODRIGO DE. De universa mulierum medicina. [12], 135, [21]; [8], 333 [i. e., 329], [23] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 321x215 mm, 18th-century vellum boards, spine slightly darkened, minor spotting and discoloration on covers; endpapers browned, otherwise internally crisp and clean; speckled red edges. Armorial bookplate of Christian Ernst Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1691-1771) on front pastedown; stamp of the Fürstlich-Stolberg-Wernigerödische Bibliothek on title. Hamburg: Philipp von Ohr for Officina Frobeniana, 1603
first edition of an important early modern gynecological treatise by a Marrano physician who settled in Hamburg. EJ V, 244; Krivatsy 2285.handsome copy, with a presentation inscription from the author to Johann Albrecht II, Duke of Mecklenburg, dated 29 June 1619 on the title page.
