Embryologie ou ovologie humaine, contenant l'histoire descriptive et iconographique de l'oeuf humain
by VELPEAU, Alf. A. L. M
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Bruuxelles: H. Dumont, 1834. [4], xx, 65pp, [1]. With a half-title and 15 lithographed plates. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, recently rebacked and recornered. Lightly rubbed. Plates foxed. The second edition, printed in the year after the first. of French anatomist and physician Alfred Armand Louis Marie Velpeau's (1795-1867) richly illustrated monograph on embryology. The London Medical and Surgical Journal (No. 77, Vol. III., 1833, p.831) received the work favourably: 'Former physiologists commenced with the inferior animals, while our author began with man, and descended to the lowest animal. He divides his subject into two parts, the annexes, or appendages of the embryo, and the whole embryo itself. In treating the different parts of his inquiries, he gives a history of the conclusions of each, and confirms or rejects them by numerous original observations. He displays the most profound erudition and great dexterity as an anatomist. He gives fifteen plates, containing numerous representations elucidating all the peculiarities of the embryo. His work is the most complete that has ever appeared, and places its author among the most distinguished anatomists of modern times.' . Second edition. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ24395
- Title
- Embryologie ou ovologie humaine, contenant l'histoire descriptive et iconographique de l'oeuf humain
- Author
- VELPEAU, Alf. A. L. M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Second edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- H. Dumont
- Place of Publication
- Bruuxelles
- Date Published
- 1834
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- Medicine
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marbled boards
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- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...