Author: DE ST. MARTHE, Scevole Title: Paedotrophia; or, the Art of Nursing and Rearing Children. A Poem
Description: 1797. DE ST. MARTHE, Scevole, transl. H. W. TYTLER. PAEDOTROPHIA; OR, THE ART OF NURSING AND REARING CHILDREN. A POEM, IN THREE BOOKS. London: printed for the Author by John Nichols, 1797. First edition (of this translation). cxci + [5] - 224 pp. 8vo. half black calf with gilt spine lettering. Spine chipped, joints cracked, marbled paper boards edgeworn. Leather corners chipped. Complete text, with Michel & Niceron's life of de Ste. Marthe. Translated from the Latin (Paedotrophiae libri tres; the first English translation dates to 1710). With footnotes to the poem. Pediatric poetry, rendered by a translator of Callimachus. .
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Price: US$ 225.00 Seller: Boston Book Company
- Book number: 81318
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