Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam. De partu: de Membranis <br>ac Humoribus Uteri & de Conceptione (Amsterdam edition, 1651)
by Harvey, William
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- Hardcover
- first
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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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. ownerâs name to r.f.e.p. [Western Australian bookseller (and scientist), J.R. Johnstone], rebacked, contemporary leather with small blind embossed floral corners, very good condition. The Amsterdam edition published in 1651, same year as the London first edition. The most important treatise on embryology of the 17th century and the second great work by the English physician, William Harvey (1578-1657), the first to describe in detail his theory of blood circulation. Harvey was also the first scientist to write on the practical application of scientific knowledge to gynaecology and included in this work is a chapter âDe Partuâ on Midwifery, the first English writing in obstetrics. 1st edition thus.
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- Bookseller
- Muir Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97627
- Title
- Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam. De partu: de Membranis ac Humoribus Uteri & de Conceptione (Amsterdam edition, 1651)
- Author
- Harvey, William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Joannem Janssonium
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1651
- Keywords
- 17th Century Books, Dutch, Gynaecology, Medical, Medicine, Midwifery, Netherlands, Obstetrics
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MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
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