Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam de partu: de membranis ac humoribus uteri & de conceptione.

12mo: [28] (engr. title incl.)-388-[3]-[1 bl.] pp. (some sm. clear waterstains in margins).

Cont. full brown sheepskin, blind-stamped fillets frame on the boards, sm. tool in the corners, decor. ribbed spine, red gilt title label, gilt date, brown sprinkled edges (rubbed, top turn-in partially gone, joint partially split).

Reprint of the Ravesteyn-edition of 1651, with the same plate for the engraved title. One of the most important books on embryology and reproduction to appear during the 17th century. Ref. Wellcome III:220. Prov. Charles Arthur Wynne Finch (armorial bookpl. dated 1878). - Ms. initials on the title: "A.V.", "S.C.". Joined: BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph - Aldrovandus Lotharingiae, ou Catalogue des animaux, quadrupèdes, reptiles, oiseaux, poissons, insectes, vermisseaux et coquillages qui habitent la Lorraine et les trois-évêchés. Paris, Fetil (Nancy, imp. C.S. Lamort), 1771. 8vo: iv-324-6 pp. (occ. foxing). Cont. full blond calf, flat spine gilt "à la grotesque", red title label, red edges (some scratches on the spine, sl. faded boards, shelf-mark label on the upper board). Wide-margined copy. Prov. Order of Friar Preachers of Louvain (stamp, ms. shelf-mark). (Tog. 2 works)