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RUYSCH, FREDERICK. Observationum anatomico-chirurgicarum centuria.Accedit catalogus rariorum, quae in Museo Ruyschiano asservantur. 46 engraved plates. [16], 138; [6], 3-120 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 238x177 mm, contemporary calf gilt, worn, spine ends chipped, front cover detached; offsetting onto plates from facing text pages, few leaves browned in second part, minimal marginal foxing elsewhere. Amsterdam: apud Henricum & viduam Theodori Boom, 1691
first edition of a collection of miscellaneous medical observations also containing a catalogue of specimens in Ruysch's anatomical collection, one of the most important of its kind in 17th-century Holland, later acquired by Tsar Peter the Great. DSB XII, 40-41; Heirs of Hippocrates 613; Krivatsy 10072.
