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Medical Works, Three Continental Examples, Late 17th Century.
Including: Regnier de Graaf's (1641-1673) Tractatus Anatomico-Medicus de Succi Pancreatici Natura & Usu, Leiden: Hackiana, 1671, octavo, second edition with new preface and additional newly published letter by de Graaf at the end; engraved title, uncut throughout, illustrated with three folding plates, extensive marginal notes, later paper-covered boards;
Pietro & Lodovico Rostini's Compendio di Tutta la Cirugia, Venice: Brigna, 1677, octavo, illustrated with eight text woodcuts of surgical tools, unrelated 18th c. family history inscribed on ffep and verso of title, inner gutter margin tight, later full leather, rebacked;
[and] Anton Nuck's (1650-1692) Adenographia Curiosa et Uteri Foeminei Anatome Nove, Leiden: Luchtmans, 1696, octavo, illustrated with added engraved title, ex libris Irish physician Sir Thomas Molyneux (1661-1733), with "T. Molyneux" on first leaf of text, A1 recto, illustrated with eleven folding anatomical engravings, bound in contemporary full leather, rebacked. (3)
