Author: RUEFF, JACOB.
Title: The Expert Midwife or An Excellent and Most Necessary Treatise on the Generation and Birth of Man.
Description: Special Limited Facsimile Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp.[vi], viii, 192, 120, (1); marbled endpapers, 35 b/w. illustrations some full page, bound in full red leather, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration to spine and boards, all edges gilt, original silk page marker, fine copy. Together with the publishers 12 page booklet titled "Notes From The Editor". New York; The Classics of Medicine Library / Gryphon Editions Ltd.; 1997. This facsimile prepared from the 1637 first English Language edition. A number of important obstetrical treatises written in the sixteenth century signaled a renewed interest in the art of midwifery. Among them was Jacob Rueff's De Conceptu et Generatione Hominis (1554), which appeared in a German edition, Ein schon lustig Trostbuchle, that same year. The Expert Midwife (1637) is the English translation of Rueff's "very cheerful book" on conception and childbirth.
Keywords: mde medical history medicine
Title: The Expert Midwife or An Excellent and Most Necessary Treatise on the Generation and Birth of Man.
Description: Special Limited Facsimile Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp.[vi], viii, 192, 120, (1); marbled endpapers, 35 b/w. illustrations some full page, bound in full red leather, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration to spine and boards, all edges gilt, original silk page marker, fine copy. Together with the publishers 12 page booklet titled "Notes From The Editor". New York; The Classics of Medicine Library / Gryphon Editions Ltd.; 1997. This facsimile prepared from the 1637 first English Language edition. A number of important obstetrical treatises written in the sixteenth century signaled a renewed interest in the art of midwifery. Among them was Jacob Rueff's De Conceptu et Generatione Hominis (1554), which appeared in a German edition, Ein schon lustig Trostbuchle, that same year. The Expert Midwife (1637) is the English translation of Rueff's "very cheerful book" on conception and childbirth.
Keywords: mde medical history medicine
Price: AUD 80.00 = appr. US$ 55.35 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 117520
- Book number: 117520