Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SOLINGEN, CORNELIS. Hand-Griffe der Wund-Artzney, nebst dem Ampt und Pflicht der Weh-Mütter . . . denen ist beygefüget desselben Autoris Embryulcia, oder Ausziehung einer todten Frucht aus dem Leibe der Mutter. Engraved allegorical frontispiece (loose) and 16 plates depicting surgical and obstetrical instruments and apparatus. [24], 776, [24]; [14], 175, [3] pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn; title soiled and stained, with perforated institutional stamp, light marginal dampstaining at end, free endpapers lacking. Frankfurt an der Oder: Christoph Andreas Zeitler for Jeremias Schrey & heirs of Heinrich Johann Meyer, 1693

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first editions in german of Solingen's manual of surgery and obstetrics and his guide to the extraction of a dead fetus from the uterus. The 2 works were originally published in Dutch in 1684 and 1673, respectively. Krivatsy 11195 (second work only).