Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BAUHIN, CASPAR. De Hermaphroditorum monstrosorumq[ue] partuum natura ex theologorum, iureconsultorum, medicorum, philosophorum, & rabbinorum sententia. Title within engraved historiated border with Frankfurt imprint dated 1600, and portrait of the author on verso; 5 full-page engraved illustrations by Johann Theodor de Bry; folding letterpress table classifying causes of monstrous births; folding plate supplied in facsimile. 36, 572, [4], [573]-594, [2] pages, including blanks 2N7-8 and errata leaf at end; lacks B2. 8vo, 162x95 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, spine darkened and damaged at top, recased, endpapers renewed; contents severely browned apart from the plate, imprint in title border abraded with partial text loss, paper flaws in upper outer corner of F6 slightly affecting text. Naples Capuchin stamp on leaf after title. sold as is. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1614

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first edition of an early work on hermaphroditism and monstrous births drawing uncritically on a wide range of medical and non-medical sources, also including discussions of satyrs, incubi and succubi, lycanthropes, etc. Caillet 846; Krivatsy 940.