Nov 03, 2006 - Sale 2092

Sale 2092 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HARVEY, WILLIAM. Exercitationes de generatione animalium. 568, [5] (of [8]) pages, including engraved additional title; lacks final blank. 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked. Amsterdam: Ludovicus Elzevirius, 1651

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Probable second edition; issue with Amsterdam imprint on additional title. The 1651 London original edition was followed by 3 printed the same year in Holland; "it is usually assumed that the Elzevir edition was the first of these" (Keynes). "The most important book on the subject to appear during the 17th century . . . The chapter on midwifery in this book is the first work on that subject to be written by an Englishman"--Garrison-Morton 467. Keynes (1953) 36; Krivatsy 5344; Willems 1129.