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HARVEY, WILLIAM. Anatomical Exercitations, concerning the Generation of Living Creatures. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Harvey. [46], 566, [1] pages, including errata leaf at end. 8vo, late 19th-/early 20th-century burgundy morocco, front cover detached, rear cover starting; margins trimmed slightly affecting text on title, contents generally clean. London: James Young for Octavian Pulleyn, 1653
first edition in english. "Harvey was among the first to disbelieve the erroneous doctrine of the 'preformation' of the foetus; he maintained that the organism derives from the ovum by the gradual building up and aggregation of its parts. The chapter on midwifery in this book is the first work on that subject to be written by an Englishman"--Garrison-Morton 467 (1651 original edition in Latin). Keynes (1953) 43; Wing H1083 (this edition).
