BONACCIOLI, LUDOVICO. 1475-1536. De uteri partiumque eius confectione. [Enneas muliebris.] Str...

BONACCIOLI, LUDOVICO. 1475-1536. De uteri partiumque eius confectione. [Enneas muliebris.] Strasburg: H. Sybold, [1530]. 8vo. (156 x 98 mm.) Contemporary vellum, minor chipping to spine exposing raised bands, light staining, traces of worming on front and rear endpapers. Minor foxing and dampstaining. Provenance: early paper library marking on spine. First Separate Edition of the first three chapters of Bonaccioli's Enneas muliebris, first published in 1502. The 1502 edition, which was the first significant book on gynecology, is extremely rare. Bonaccioli, who taught philosophy and medicine at the University of Ferrara, was one of the first to write about the clitoris and the hymen, which he appears to have been the first to describe accurately. Bonaccioli was Lucrezia Borgia's personal physician, and he dedicated the Enneas muliebris—his only published work—to her. 'An entirely new composition, [Bonaccioli's work] was unusual not so much in being dedicated to a woman . . . but in eschewing a therapeutic focus for a more discursive, compendious survey of scientific opinion on generation' (Green, Making Women's Medicine Masculine, p. 266). This edition of De uteri partiumque also contains another tract on reproduction, Aristoteles 'De signis quae puerorum seminis emissionem, puellarumque viripotentiam preveniunt' (H4). Leonardo, History of Gynecology pp. 189, 278. VD16- ZV 22963. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing