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MERCURIO, GERONIMO SCIPIONE. La Commare. Woodcut text illustrations throughout. [36], 363 [i. e., 367] pages, including engraved title. 4to,
MERCURIO, GERONIMO SCIPIONE. La Commare. Woodcut text illustrations throughout. [36], 363 [i. e., 367] pages, including engraved title. 4to, contemporary limp vellum, top of backstrip damaged, book block loose in binding; worming at beginning and end of volume and in blank outer margin of several leaves in the middle not impairing legibility. Venice: Gio. Bat. Ciotti, 1621
- Notes: "First Italian book on obstetrics... a work of importance for the study of the history of Caesarean section; in it Mercurio advocated the Caesarean operation in cases of contracted pelvis"--Garrison-Morton (1596 original edition in Italian). Krivatsy 7809 (this edition).
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