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WOLFF, Hans Kaspar (1523-1601), editor. Gynaeciorum. - MOSCHION. De morbis mulieribus liber unus. Edited by Wolff. Basel: Thomas Guarin, 1566.
4o (211 x 167 mm). Woodcut printer's device on titles and end of first part, woodcut illustrations in text. (Some dampstaining, tiny hole on N2 affecting a few letters slightly.) 18th-century vellum (cloth folding case).
RARE FIRST EDITION of the "first encyclopedia of gynaecology, originally conceived by Conrad Gesner, who collected material for the purpose. Wolff, Gesner's literary executor, added material and published the collection one year after Gesner's death" (Garrison-Morton). Included at the end is the first edition of Moschion's De mulierum passionibus liber, the earliest text specifically for midwives, based on the teachings of his mentor Soranus, the greatest obstetrical writer of antiquity. Adams W-243 and M-1837; BM/STC German p. 926 and p. 629; Garrison-Morton 6011 and 6136; Norman 2256.
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RARE FIRST EDITION of the "first encyclopedia of gynaecology, originally conceived by Conrad Gesner, who collected material for the purpose. Wolff, Gesner's literary executor, added material and published the collection one year after Gesner's death" (Garrison-Morton). Included at the end is the first edition of Moschion's De mulierum passionibus liber, the earliest text specifically for midwives, based on the teachings of his mentor Soranus, the greatest obstetrical writer of antiquity. Adams W-243 and M-1837; BM/STC German p. 926 and p. 629; Garrison-Morton 6011 and 6136; Norman 2256.