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MEEK'REN, JOBUS VAN. Heel- en Geneeskonstige Aanmerkkingen. Numerous engraved and woodcut text illustrations. [22], 495 [i. e. 497], [13] pages, including engraved frontispiece and leaf with engraving and letterpress between pages pages 254 and 255. 8vo, 159x99 mm, contemporary vellum boards, spine stained and slightly chipped at top, covers soiled; dampstaining in lower inner corners at beginning and end of volume, occasional marginal toning and soiling, portion of blank lower margin excised from title, clean tear in 2F5. Bookplates of the physician and naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) and the neurologist Hans H. Reese (1891-1973). Amsterdam, Casparus Commelijn, 1668
first edition of an important collection of surgical observations containing the first published report of a bone graft, which appears in the transcription of a letter describing the transplantation of bone from a dog's skull into a Russian nobleman's cranial wound. The text appears on pages 7-8, with an illustration. Garrison-Morton 5735.
