Obstetrics.- [Roesslin (Eucharius)] The Birth of Man-kinde; otherwise named, The Womans Booke. Set forth in English by Thomas Raynald Physitian, and by him corrected and augmented, title within woodcut decorative border (some loss to border at fore-edge and repaired), 9 pages of woodcut illustration, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, mostly in black letter, small stain obscuring few letters to B3v, H8 short tear repaired to lower blank corner, water-staining to first few Sig., some soiling and light staining elsewhere, some light browning, later polished calf, covers with blind-stamped Greek key border and other decoration, few small stains, rubbed and scuffed, upper joint cracked but holding, [STC 21163], small 4to, [H. Lownes] for A. H[ebb]. and are to be sold by Iames Boler, 1626.

⁂ A rare English edition of the first practical handbook for midwives. This translation by the physician Thomas Raynalde is based on Richard Jonas' translation of a Latin edition of Roesslin's Der swagern Frauwen und hebammen Rosegarten, 1513.