The birth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke. / Newly set forth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde phisition.
- Rösslin, Eucharius, -1526.
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- [1565]
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Swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten. English
Birth of mankind
Womans booke
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[London] : [Richard Jugge], [1565]
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14 unnumbered pages, Cxxxi [i.e. 132] leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 4to
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 21157
ESTC S116022
Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 21158
STC (2nd ed.), 21158
Notes
Based on a translation by Richard Jonas of a Latin edition of: Roeslin, Eucharius. Der swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten.
Date of publication from T6r, at end of text; place of publication and printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A4 B-S8 T6.
Copy 1. Includes the folding plate with nine anatomical figures and two leaves of Birth figures. Full contemporary calf, rebacked. Central gilt centrepiece on upper and lower covers. Some contemporary marginal annotations. Signature on title page: Edward B. Sinclair ... 1857 (Sir Edward Burrowes Sinclair (1824-1882) was Professor of Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin from 1867). There are many annotations throughout, in a 19th century hand, probably by Sinclair.
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