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De partu hominis, et quae circa ipsum accidunt. Libellus D. Eucharii Rhodionis

Rösslin, Eucharius · 1532 · Franc[ofurti]. Chri[stianus] Egen[olphus] · 14 pictures

De partu hominis is a 1532 Frankfurt midwifery treatise by the physician Eucharius Rösslin, printed in Latin for medical practitioners and midwives. Its woodcuts show fetuses in uterine forms drawn as flask-like vessels, with the surrounding text set in dense black-letter type, offering a designer stark diagrammatic figures and a compact vintage printed page.

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