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HARVEY, WILLIAM. Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium.Quibus accedunt quaedam De Partu: de Membranis ac humoribus Uteri: & de Conceptione. [32], 301, [3] pages, including etched allegorical additional title and the 3 integral blanks. 4to, 214x159 mm, modern panelled calf; occasional toning, single tiny wormhole in lower inner corner of first 3 leaves, additional title cropped in outer margin slightly entering image, small stain and early 18th-century owner's inscription on title, paper flaw in blank outer margin of Q3. London: Du-Gard for Octavian Pulleyn, 1651
first edition. "Harvey developed the first fundamentally new theory of generation since antiquity and his work represents a major advance in the study of animal reproduction . . . De generatione animalium covers all aspects of conception and birth; its chapter on parturition was the first original work on the subject by an Englishman"--Norman 1011. Garrison-Morton 467; Keynes 34; Krivatsy 5342; PMM 127; Wing H1091.
