1674 William Harvey Medicine Generation Childbirth Embryology OBGYN Illustrated

1674 William Harvey Medicine Generation Childbirth Embryology OBGYN Illustrated

First illustrated edition of most important book on embryology!

An important medical treatise on generation, embryology, and conception by famous English physiologist William Harvey.

“After the publication of ‘De motu cordis,’ Harvey turned his attention to the study of generation. Even if Harvey had not discovered the circulation of the blood, his remarkable work on embryology would have placed him in the front ranks of biological scientists. Without benefit of the compound microscope, his work was necessarily limited; nevertheless, nothing comparable had been done since Aristotle. He disbelieved the previously held doctrine of ‘preformation’ of the fetus, maintaining instead that it proceeds from the ovum by gradual building up of its parts” (HoH).

This book, while not as medically polarizing as his treatise on blood circulation, includes a section that is often considered the first work on obstetrics and midwifery published by an English physician. (GM).

This 1674 is a subsequent issue of the original 1651 first edition. However, this printing is the first illustrated edition which includes 9 full-page engravings which depict embryos and the fertilization processes in animals. It features commentary, notes, and research of Wilhelm Langly and was edited by Justus Schrader.

Item number: #3109

Price: $1500

HARVEY, William

Observationes et historiae omnes & singulae è Guiljelmi Harvei libello De generatione animalium excerptae, & in accuratissimum ordinem redactae. : Item Wilhelmi Langly De generatione animalium observationes quaedam. Accedunt Ovi faecundi singulus ab incubatione diebus factae inspectiones ; ut et Observationum anatomico-med. decades quator ; denique Cadavera balsamo condiendi modus. Studio Justus Schraderi …

Amstelodami : Typis Abrahami Wolfgang, 1674.

Details:

• Collation completed with all pages: [36], 240
  • 9 full-page plates
• References: Garrison-Morton, 6146; Heirs of Hippocrates, 271; Needham 153
• Provenance: Bookplate – Dr. Maurice Villaret
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
• Size: ~5.5in X 3in (14cm x 8cm)
• Very important book that sells for upwards of double our asking price

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