- Description
- Considered to be the first encylopedia of gynecology and obstetrics. Complied by Conrad Gesner, but completed, with additional material, by Hans Wolf and published one year after Gesner's death. Text contains the first editon of Moschion. Cf. Garrison-Morton (5th edition), 6011.
- Publication date
- M.D.LXVI. [1566].
- Call number
- 648519
- Provenance
- Gift of The Longo Family Trust, Lawrence D. and Betty Jeanne Longo, Trustees, 2015. Bookplate: Ex-libris Antonio-Biancheri-chirurgo. Inscription crossed out and made illegible on the title page.
- Dimensions
- 23 cm (4to)
- Associated people
- Gessner, Conrad, (1516-1565,)
- Wolf, Hans Kaspar, (1532-1601,)
- Guarin, Thomas, (1529-1592,)
- Mustio. (-1013?)
- Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, (active 1542.)
- Trotula. (-approximately 1540.)
- La Roche, Nicolas de, (1478-1555.)
- Bonacciuoli, Luigi,
- Dubois, Jacques,
- Longo, Lawrence D.,
- Longo, Betty Jeanne,