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Ostetricia - Medicina - Mercurio, Scipione

The Commare or Gatherer, 1642

Estimate

€ 50 - 100

Sold

€ 284

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Verona, Francesco de Rossi, 1642. In 8°. Copper engraved frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text, missing pages. 169-178, loose issues, frontispiece and first issue partially detached, missing parts on the first two leaves, traces of humidity, slight foxing, contemporary parchment binding partially detached, missing parts on the spine and cover.

Specialist Notes

"In 1596, when he was a doctor in Lendinara, he published his most famous treatise in Venice, La comare o ricoglitrice, destined to remain, until the 1720s, the only obstetrics manual in the vernacular, with numerous editions even in a non-Italian language." Treccani

Lot not subject to return.