Live auction - Lot 759
[Reproductive medicine]
De partibus generationis inservientibus libri duo.
Leiden, F. Lopez de Haro, 1664
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
12mo: [8]-184 pp.
Contemp. vellum, flat spine.
Bound with (as usual): Arantius, J.C. - De humano foetu libellus. Ibid. 50 pp. [and] Nymman, G. - Dissertatio de vita foetus in utero. Ibid. [8]-84 pp.
First combined ed. of 3 rare works on reproduction ill. with an engr. title. Plazzonus' work describes the organs of human reproduction. The Nymann work marks the transition from theological to scientific embryology in the 17th c. and is continuously paginated with Adrian Spigel's "Epistola de incerto tempore partus" (pp. 61-84).
Ref. STCN. - UGent.
Prov. Ferber.