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Neu=entdeckte Heimligkeiten Des Frauenzimmers. Bestehend in III. Theilen,...vollkommene beschreibung der Menschen, sambt der Natur, Schönheit....II. Auserlesene Curieuse Erörterte Medicinische und Physicalische Fragen, sambt denen neuesten Observation...
Franckfurth und Leipzig, Ernst Ludwig Niedt, 1725. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Leather titlelabel renewed to style. Engraved frontispiece. Titlapage in red/black. (14),619,(21) pp. Some browning to last few leaves of index and the tqo last leaves of index with small repairs, loosing a few letters. Signed Bille Brahe, from the Library at ""Hvedholm"" (stamped).
""Many of the recorded works by Kräutermann were issued after Hellwig's death in 1721, the latest 1793. Most of these are new eds. but some do not appear to have been published previously. Despite the existence of prefaces signed Kraütermann and dated 1723 and 1733, most authorities from Jöcher and Seguier onwards have assigned the works to C. von Hellwig and a note by his son Johann Gottlob on p. 87 of 'Nosce te ipsum' (1744) supports the attribution ('in meinem seel. Vaters Comp. Medicinae Renunciatur). (Wellcome III: p. 240). - This edition not in Wellcome. - Waller 4286 (1710-edition). Not in Simon and Vicaire.
Compendieuses (und jetzo um die Hellfte vermehrtes) Teutsh=und Lateinisches Blumen=Und Kräuter=Buch, in welchem Die vornehmsten Kräuter, Blumen, Hecken, Bäume, Stauden, und Wurtzeln I. Nach ihren verschiedenen Nahmen, II. Geschlecht und Farbe, IV. Kra...
Franckfurt und Leipzig, Ernst Ludwig Niedtens, 1723. 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. Corners bumped and with light wear, wear to spine ends and spine a little worn. Fronthinge cracking, but still holding Titlelabel with gilt lettering.. Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red/black. (14),496,(32) pp. A little browning to first ab. 10 leaves.
Scarce second, much enlarged, edition. After several years of medical practice Hellwig became town physician at Tennstädt, Thüringia. He wrote many books on medicine, pharmaceutical chemistry, and related subjects. He died 1712, and some of his works were issued under the pseudonym Valentin Kräutermann. - Wellcome III:240 (only listing an imcomplete 3rd edition) - Not in Duveen and not in Ferguson.
