The byrth of mankynd, otherwyse named the womans boke / Newly set forth, corrected and augmented, whose co[n]tentes ye may reade in thee table of the boke, and moste playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynald Phisition.

  • Rösslin, Eucharius, -1526.
Date:
Anno. M.D.Lii. [1552]
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Swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten. English

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London : Tho. Ray[nald], Anno. M.D.Lii. [1552]

Physical description

21 unnumbered pages, 149 leaves : illustrations (engr) ; (4to)

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/83/97
Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/83/98

References note

STC (2nd ed.), 21155
Hellman, Alfred M. A collection of early obstetrical books. New Haven, Conn. 1952, no. 20, with facsimile of title page and colophon leaf, figs. 23-24.
ESTC S114370
Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 21155

Notes

Signatures: A-B⁴ C-Y⁸
Printer’s name from colophon; actual name from STC
Based on a translation by Richard Jonas of a Latin edition of: Roeslin, Eucharius. Der swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten
Copy 1 Note: Birth-figures and anatomical illus. wanting.

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