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ROESSLIN, Eucharius (d.1526). Der Swangern Frauwen und Hebammen Rosegarten. Strassburg: Martinus Flach iunior, correctore Joanne Adelpho physico, 1513
Small 4° (212 x 154mm). Collation: A-N4 O6, woodcut title border of 4 blocks, 4 large and 18 small (mainly foetal) woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp vellum with overflap and two cloth ties. A FRESH UNPRESSED COPY. Provenance: R.Curtis, presented to Dr.Marek in memory of J.J.Curtis of Rochdale 1873 (inscription at head of title).
FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED TEXTBOOK ON MIDWIFERY. This is a very rare book. Not in Adams; not in Wellcome; Bibliotheca Walleriana has only the second edition of 1513; Garrison & Morton 6138 (wrongly stating the first printing to be Hagenau); Choulant, History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration (1945) pp 73-75; Klein, Eucharius Rösslin's 'Rosengarten' gedruckt im Jahre 1513. Facsimile mit Begleit-Text von G.Klein (Munich 1910); Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science during the first century of printing 507; Durling, Sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 3893.
The work is based on the manuscripts of Soranus of Ephesus who wrote in the second century AD and the ninth-century Moschion Codex in the Royal Library at Brussels. In all probability Roesslin got his inspiration for the illustrations of the foetus in utero from the Heidelberg Codex in the Vatican Library. Martin Flach had them cut in wood by the noted Formschneider Erhard Schön and they continued to be used by Roesslin's successors until the 18th century.
Small 4° (212 x 154mm). Collation: A-N4 O6, woodcut title border of 4 blocks, 4 large and 18 small (mainly foetal) woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp vellum with overflap and two cloth ties. A FRESH UNPRESSED COPY. Provenance: R.Curtis, presented to Dr.Marek in memory of J.J.Curtis of Rochdale 1873 (inscription at head of title).
FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED TEXTBOOK ON MIDWIFERY. This is a very rare book. Not in Adams; not in Wellcome; Bibliotheca Walleriana has only the second edition of 1513; Garrison & Morton 6138 (wrongly stating the first printing to be Hagenau); Choulant, History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration (1945) pp 73-75; Klein, Eucharius Rösslin's 'Rosengarten' gedruckt im Jahre 1513. Facsimile mit Begleit-Text von G.Klein (Munich 1910); Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science during the first century of printing 507; Durling, Sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 3893.
The work is based on the manuscripts of Soranus of Ephesus who wrote in the second century AD and the ninth-century Moschion Codex in the Royal Library at Brussels. In all probability Roesslin got his inspiration for the illustrations of the foetus in utero from the Heidelberg Codex in the Vatican Library. Martin Flach had them cut in wood by the noted Formschneider Erhard Schön and they continued to be used by Roesslin's successors until the 18th century.