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PINEAU, SÉVERIN; et al. De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis; graviditate item & partu naturali mulierum, opuscula [with Lodovico Bonaccioli, Enneas muliebris; Felix Platter, De origine partium, earumque in utero conformatione; Pierre Gassendi, De septo cordis pervio, observatio; and Melchior Sebitz, De notis virginitatis]. 2 folding woodcut plates; folding leaf with woodcut plate and 2 letterpress tables; woodcut text illustrations. [8], 183, [1]; 310, [20] pages, including engraved additional title dated 1641. 12mo, 125x74 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink, spine darkened, with remnant of shelf label; few minor marginal stains not affecting illustrations. 19th-century bookplate of C. H. Fuchs. Leiden: Franciscus Heger, 1640 [i. e., 1641]
Collection of gynecological and obstetrical texts. Pineau's work on virginity, first published in 1597, gave the first account of vestigial foramen ovale in the adult heart (see Garrison-Morton 802). Krivatsy 9009.
