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RUYSCH, FREDERIK. 1638-1731. Thesaurus animalium primus. Amsterdam: Johannes Wolters, 1710. image 1
RUYSCH, FREDERIK. 1638-1731. Thesaurus animalium primus. Amsterdam: Johannes Wolters, 1710. image 2
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RUYSCH, FREDERIK. 1638-1731.
Thesaurus animalium primus. Amsterdam: Johannes Wolters, 1710.

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RUYSCH, FREDERIK. 1638-1731.

Thesaurus animalium primus. Amsterdam: Johannes Wolters, 1710.
BOUND WITH: Thesaurus anatomicus. Parts 2-4, 7 and 8. Amsterdam: Jansson-Waeberg, 1702-1709.
4to (223 x 174 mm). Engraved extra title page and 27 folding plates in all. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Rubbed, a few tears at folds of plates, scattered spotting.

FIRST EDITION. "Ruysch, professor of anatomy at Leyden and Amsterdam, is notable for his method of injecting the vessels. The recipe for the material used by Ruysch has remained a secret. He gave the first description of bronchial blood vessels and vascular plexuses of the heart, demonstrated the valves of the lymphatics, and made a great number of other important discoveries in anatomy" (Garrison-Morton-Norman). Ruysch's collection of anatomical and zoological specimens, many of which are illustrated in this work, was sold to Czar Peter the Great. Many of them have survived as part of the collection of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg. Blake p 395; Wellcome IV, 600.

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