The byrth of mankynde, otherwyse named the womans booke : Newly set furth, corrected and augmented. Whose co[n]tentes ye maye rede in the table of the booke, and most playnly in the prologue / By Thomas Raynold phisition.

Swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten. English

Imprynted at London : By Tho. Ray[nalde], Anno.M.D.XLV. [1545]

22 unnumbered pages, 46 pages, 14 unnumbered pages, 47-100 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 109-144 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 145-148 leaves, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (engr.) ; 19 cm (8vo)

Place of publication from colophon; printer’s name from colophon

Between quires I and K are interpolated 2H⁸ 3H⁶ with foliation 0, 40, el4, 42, 44, 44, 46, 46, 0, 0, el4, 44, 46, 46. Book 2 begins on K1r. The two leaves following 144 are foliated 44 and 4.

Based on a translation by Richard Jonas of a Latin edition of: Roeslin, Eucharius. Der swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten.

Ills. include 11 anatomical figures taken from T. Geminus' 'Anatomie' (1545)--cf. Hind, Engraving in England, p. 44, 53-55.

Signatures: A⁴ B-I⁸ Hh⁸ Hhh⁶ K-Q⁸ R⁴ S-X⁸ Y¹°

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Christie's (N.Y.) Note: Imperfect: final 3 leaves wanting. 11 anatomical ills. (one folded) cut out separately and mounted on 4 inserted leaves, the engravings numbered I-XI in later(?) MS. No. 1 is a reversal of the equivalent in Geminus' 'Anatomie'. Binding: Contemp. English blind-stamped calf, sides panelled with blind fillets and roll-tool. Later endpapers. From the library of Haskell F. Norman (1915-96), with his book label. Lot 180 in the Christie's (N.Y.) sale of his collection, pt. 1, 18 March 1998

STC (2nd ed.), 21154

NLM (16th cent.), 907

Norman, 1844

Power, D'Arcy. "The birth of mankind" ... a bibliographical study. p. 4-5, 10

Ballantyne, J.W. The "Byrth of mankynde"

ESTC S116045

Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 21154