Der schwangern Frauwen und Hebammen Rosengarten / [Eucharius Rösslin].

Strassburg : Durch Balthassar Beck, In dem Jar 1529.

120 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)

Hellman, A.M. A collection of early obstetrical books, 5

Collation includes final blank leaf.

Imprint and date from colophon.

Large title woodcut, showing author presenting book to Katherine, Duchess of Brunswick and Luneburg, is a mirror image of that found in the first ed. of 1513. Some of the text woodcuts are also reversed.

Another edition was published the same year in Augsburg.

Woodcut initials.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: H.P. Kraus. Note: Binding: 20th cent. dark brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, London, in maroon cloth chemise and morocco-backed box. From the collections of Alfred M. Hellman [b. 1880] and Alistair Livingston Gunn, with their bookplates.