Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 387

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HARVEY, WILLIAM; et al. Observationes et historiae omnes & singulae è Guilielmi Harvei libello de generatione animalium excerptae, & in accuratissimum ordinem redactae. Item Wilhelmi Langly de generatione animalium observationes quaedam. Accedunt Ovi faecundi singulis ab incubatione diebus factae inspectiones . . . studio Justi Schraderi, M.D.<> 8 engraved plates depicting developing chicks and hernial protrusions. [36], 240 pages, including etched additional title by Romeyn de Hooghe. 12mo, contemporary vellum; light dampstaining in upper outer corners throughout, crude handwritten English translation in ink of quote from Ecclesiastes on letterpress title verso. Osler Library/McGill University bookplate and stamp (released). Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang, 1674

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"Six of the plates are the first illustrations of Harvey's text to be published"--Keynes (1953) 41. Krivatsy 5349.<