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La commare o raccoglitrice ... divisa in tre libri

Mercurio, Girolamo, -1615 · 1676 · Venetia : Per Gio: Francesco Valvasense · 4 pictures

A 1676 Venetian midwifery treatise by Scipione Mercurio, revised by Pietro di Castro, printed for a midwife audience and held by the Wellcome Library. The pictures are sparse: decorated printed initial letters with foliate ornament and a small woodcut of a still-life vessel set above flames, with the title page showing a plain classical typographic layout.

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