Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

173 c RÖSSLIN, EUCHARIUS. Den Rosegaert van de[n] bevruchten Vrouwen. Title in red and black with half-page woodcut of midwives attending pregnant woman; woodcut text illustrations. 1, 4-5, 8-94 [i. e., 95] leaves; lacks A2.7, A3.6, and final blank M8. Printed in black letter. 8vo, 129x82 mm, old vellum-backed boards, cover edges worn through; margins trimmed slightly entering text and illustration on C2r, contents toned, conspicuous dampstaining on opening leaves, title partly detached and heavily soiled with crude restoration in upper and lower margins, upper outer corner off next few leaves. (Kampen: Steven Joessen), circa 1550-75? [800/1,200] Dutch version of Rösslin’s 1513 Der swangern Frawen und hebammen roszgarten, the first printed manual of midwifery. Garrison-Morton 6138 (original edition). OCLC, USTC, and NSTC locate only the University of Amsterdam copy of this edition, lacking the title. 174 c SUÁREZ DE RIVERA, FRANCISCO. Amenidades de la Magia Chyrurgica, y Médica Natural. Engraved portrait of the author and 5 engraved plates. [26], 236, [4] pages, including engraved additional title. 4to, 203x144 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, lacking ties, short crack at top of rear joint; scattered marginal foxing and toning. Madrid: Domingo Fernández de Arrojo for Luis Correa, 1736 [400/600] first edition of a treatise by a latter-day adherent of Paracelsus on the application of natural magic to medicine. Chinchilla III, 53-56; Hernández Morejón VI, 402-11; Palau 324093. 175 c WASSON, VALENTINA PAVLOVNA and R. GORDON. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. 82 plates, some in color; folding table in Volume 2 rear cover pocket. 2 volumes. Folio, 319x238 mm, original linen; contents clean; glassine dust jackets (the first missing portions of spine panel); publisher’s linen slipcase. NewYork: Pantheon Books, (1957) [800/1,200] first edition of a comparative study of the lore of mushrooms and their use for culinary, medicinal, homicidal, and ritual purposes in Russia, Western Europe, Mesoamerica, and other societies. number 404 of 510 sets , printed at the Officina Bodoni. MEDICINE, continued 173 174