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HARVEY (WILLIAM) Exercitationes de generatione animalium, FIRST EDITION, Du Fard, for O. Pulleyn, 1651
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HARVEY (WILLIAM)
Exercitationes de generatione animalium, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved allegorical title (depicting Jove seated on a pedestal, holding a large egg inscribed 'ex ova omnia'), woodcut ornament on title, without first blank, thin wormtrail in lower blank margin (just touching rule border of additional title), browning, early ownership inscription inked over on title, contemporary calf, extremities of spine repaired [Keynes 34; Garrison-Morton 467; Wing H1091], small 4to (220 x 155mm.), Du Fard, for O. Pulleyn, 1651
Footnotes
The first edition of Harvey's classic work on embryology. Garrison-Morton notes that "The chapter on midwifery in this book is the first work on that subject by an Englishman", and that Harvey considered Exercitationes to be "the culminating work of his life, and more significant than De motu cordis". See illustration on preceding page.





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