ROESSLIN (Eucher). De Partu hominis, et quae circa ipsum accidunt. Paris, Joan. Foucher, 1535. In-12, soft parchment (contemporary binding). 80 numbered ff. Title vignette and 20 woodcut illustrations in the text. One of the earliest treatises on obstetrics, first published in German as Der Schwangeren Frauen und Hebammen Rosengarten ("The Rose Garden of Pregnant Women and Midwives") in Strasbourg in 1513. Eucher Roesslin (1470-1526) practised first as an apothecary in Freiburg, then as a physician in Frankfurt in 1506, before becoming the elected physician of the town of Worms. He worked for the Duchess Catherine of Brunswick-Lunebourg. It was at her request that he published this treatise, which was an immediate success. In reality, it is a compilation of ancient Greek and Latin authors. Written in simple, understandable German, at a time when medical books were written in Latin, the manual was a huge success with barber-surgeons and midwives. After the author's death, his son republished the work in Frankfurt in 1533, adding four chapters. For wider distribution, he published a Latin translation under the title De partu hominis. The first Latin edition appeared in Frankfurt in 1532. This Paris edition is the second. A fine copy in its original binding. Ex-libris Octave Chavaillon, who, with his son Pierre, was the most notable representative of a family of pharmacists and doctors from Châtellerault between the wars. Old notes faded on the title. Durling 3898.