Oct 18, 2005 - Sale 2052

Sale 2052 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HARVEY ON EMBRYOLOGY HARVEY, WILLIAM. Exercitationes de generatione animalium. [28], 388, [3] pages, including engraved title. 12mo, later vellum, titled in ink on spine. Roy Vernon Sowers booklabel. Amsterdam: apud Joannem Ravesteynium, 1662

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"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 (1651 London original edition). Keynes (Harvey) 39; Krivatsy 5347.