Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women.

£15,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

STC 12496 recording BL , Glasgow UL (ex William Hunter collection), Newcastle University (electronic copy), Bodley , Royal College of Obstetricians Gynaecologists , Royal College of Physicians Surgeons of Glasgow , Wellcome Library (electronic copy); Huntington (early manuscript notes of the Holles family), Indiana UL , New York Academy of Medicine , US National Library of Medicine , University of Kansas (microfilm), Yale (electronic copy). OCLC adds the John Rylands Library; Universities of British Columbia, Chicago, and Duke. The second part, The Nursing of Children (London: by A. Hatfield, 1612), has a separate title-page. A second edition was published in 1635. A very fine copy in contemporary vellum of one of the earliest English midwifery manuals. The first English translation of Jacques Guillemeau’s (1550-1613) De l’heureux accouchement des femmes and De la nourriture et governement des enfans (both Paris 1609). The anonymous translator, in his preface to the reader, explains why he has decided to translate a work which is already “common to be had and read in that vulgar tongue [French]”: “… I must say that it is not writ so much for the learned (who not withstanding, if they have not the french, may make use of this) as for the Chirurgions, Midwives, who are called to this kinde of employment. As for women (whom I am most afraid to offend) they must be content to have their infirmities detected, if they will have helpe for them, which I wish might not come to any ear

• Year: 1612

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