Exercitationes De Generatione Animalium Quibus Accedunt Quaedam De Partu

Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium. 1651. Amsterdam edition (text in Latin), 12mo, pp.(xxxii), 415, (iv, Index), engraved woodcut vignette title page, head-pieces and initials, frontispiece depicting Jove holding a bisected egg showing human figures and animals released, pages lightly tanned, some staining to margins of pp.168 & 168, prev. owner’s name to r.f.e.p. [Western Australian bookseller (and scientist), J.R. Johnstone], rebacked, contemporary… Read more about this item

London: Du-Gardianis, 1651. First. hardcover. very good. (26), 1 blank, 301 pages + errata. Small 4to, contemporary vellum, wallet edges; small library stamps on page 1, title page. verso, and page 50. Londini: Typis Du-Gardianis; impensis Octaviani Pulleyn, 1651. First edition. A very good(+) copy with title page re-hinged, and unfortunately lacking the engraved frontispiece but the pages… Read more about this item

AMSTELODAMI: APUD JOANNEM JANSSONIUM. [600' MEDICINA-RARO] (cm13,6) bella legatura originale in piena pergamena con unghie.--cc. 17 nn. + 1c. bianca (che manca) + pp. 415 + 1 p. bianca + cc. 2 nn. di index. bella antiporta figurata con allegorie. E' il più importante trattato di embriologia del XVII secolo. Pietra miliare del celebre medico inglese che dopo il "de… Read more about this item