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Harvey (William). Observationes et Historiæ omnes et singulæ è Guiljelmi Harvei libello De Generatione Animalium excerptæ, et in accuratissimum ordinem redactæ item Wilhelmi Langly De Generatione Animalium Observationes quaedam; Accedunt Ovi faecundi singulis ab incubatione diebus factae Inspectiones; Ut et Observationum Anatomico-Med. Decades quatuor; denique Cadavera Balsamo condiendi modus. Studio Justi Schraderi, M.D. Amstelodami (Amsterdam), Abraham Wolfgang [Elzevier], 1674. In-16 of [17] ff, 1 bl. f., 240 pp, contemporary cream vellum, smooth spine, traces of handwritten title in ink. Spine browned. First edition of Langly's commentaries. The work is decorated with a fine frontispiece engraved by Romain de Hooghe and 8 engraved plates describing eggs and their contents, 6 of which were published for the first time to illustrate this important treatise in the history of embryology by the English physician W. Harvey (1578-1657), who "worked for many years on the egg and its development, and whose conclusions constituted a significant advance on the knowledge of the time" [Keynes, 41]. (Willems, n°1884.) Expert: Madame Elvire POULAIN
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Harvey (William). Observationes et Historiæ omnes et singulæ è Guiljelmi Harvei libello De Generatione Animalium excerptæ, et in accuratissimum ordinem redactæ item Wilhelmi Langly De Generatione Animalium Observationes quaedam; Accedunt Ovi faecundi singulis ab incubatione diebus factae Inspectiones; Ut et Observationum Anatomico-Med. Decades quatuor; denique Cadavera Balsamo condiendi modus. Studio Justi Schraderi, M.D. Amstelodami (Amsterdam), Abraham Wolfgang [Elzevier], 1674. In-16 of [17] ff, 1 bl. f., 240 pp, contemporary cream vellum, smooth spine, traces of handwritten title in ink. Spine browned. First edition of Langly's commentaries. The work is decorated with a fine frontispiece engraved by Romain de Hooghe and 8 engraved plates describing eggs and their contents, 6 of which were published for the first time to illustrate this important treatise in the history of embryology by the English physician W. Harvey (1578-1657), who "worked for many years on the egg and its development, and whose conclusions constituted a significant advance on the knowledge of the time" [Keynes, 41]. (Willems, n°1884.) Expert: Madame Elvire POULAIN
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