Feb 19, 2004 - Sale 1997

Sale 1997 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 1,265
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
METLINGER, BARTHOLOMAEUS. Der Weyber natürliche heymlichaiten und zugehör, Alberti Magni, Allen Hebammen und kindtbarn Frauwen dienlich. Kinds pflegung . . . Durch D. Bartholo. Mörlinger [sic]. 25, [2] (of [3]) leaves; lacks last leaf (blank or with device?). 4to, late 19th-/early 20th-century morocco, front cover detached; contents soiled and dampstained, clean tear across A3. [Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner?], 1531

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Metlinger's 1473 work on pediatric diseases and child care, the second book on pediatrics after Bagellardo's 1472 treatise, is reprinted here on B2r-G1r. Miscellaneous information for midwives attributed to Albertus Magnus appears on A2v-B1v, and Isocratis underweisung an den jungen Demonicum on G1v-G2r. This edition not in Durling.