Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 385

Unsold
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
GYNAECIORUM SIVE MULIERUM AFFECTIBUS COMMENTARII.<> Volumes 1 and 2 (of 4). Woodcut text illustrations. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, early 19th-century 1/4 sheep, spines badly worn and crudely reinforced with cellotape; marginal dampstaining throughout first volume and at beginning and end of second, with occasional traces of mold, old ownership inscription of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Aberdeen on Volume 1 title. Basel: Thomas Guarinus, 1586

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Second edition, revised and enlarged, of the first encyclopedia of obstetrics and gynecology, originally published in 1566. Choulant, Handbuch, page 419; Durling 2253; Garrison-Morton 6012.<