BONACCIUOLI, Luigi (d. c. 1540)
De uteri partiumq[ue] eius consectione . Eiusdem. Quonam usu in abse[n]tibus etiamnum Venus citetur. Quid, quale, undeq[ue] prolificum semen, unde me[n]strua [et]c. [Colophon:] Argentinae per Henricum Sybold. Mense Decembri
Strasbourg: Heinrich Sybold, 1530?. 8vo: A--I8, 72 unnumbered leaves. Roman letter. 9-line historiated initial on A2r and one smaller white on black woodcut initial. Leaf size and condition: 153 x 90mm. A2r poorly inked with some loss of legibility in last few lines; light waterstains in the lower and inner margins, faint browning. A good fresh copy. Binding: Early eighteenth-century French polished calf, gilt spine. Joints cracked, head and tail of spine chipped, corners worn. Provenance and annotation: Old shelf mark on pastedown. Walter Pagel (1896--1983); B. E. J. Pagel (1930--2007). References: Durling 620; VD16 ZV 22963. First edition. § Printed after Bonacciuoli's work is Aristotele, De signis quae puerorum seminis emissionem, puellarumque viri potentiam preveniunt.
[Bookseller: Roger Gaskell]
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