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RUEFF, JACOB. De conceptu et generatione hominis. Numerous woodcut illustrations. [6], 100 leaves, including blank b2; lacks V4 (leaf 80, with text only, replaced with facsimile on laid paper). 4to, 200x147 mm, contemporary limp vellum with later thong ties, recased, endpapers renewed; marginal dampstaining through most of volume, varying marginal soiling, opening leaves dog-eared, few small holes in blank outer margin of title, contemporary ink scrawls and dense annotations on N2v-N4r, upper margin of the last dozen leaves gnawed, affecting sidenote and pagination on the last 5. Frankfurt am Main: (Georg Rabe for Sigismund Feyerabend), 1580
Later edition of the 1554 Latin adaptation of Rösslin's 1513 Der swangern Frawen und Hebammen Roszgarten (see lot 269). "This contains the first true anatomical pictures in an obstetrics book. Rueff described smooth-edged forceps for delivery of a live baby, preceding Chamberlen, and a toothed forceps for extraction of the dead foetus"--Garrison-Morton 6141 (1554 edition in German). Cutter & Viets, page 188-90; Durling 3980; Norman 1856.
