RUYSCH FREDERIK Opera omnia anatomica medico chirurgica huc

Sale 1997 - Lot 328

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RUYSCH, FREDERIK. Opera omnia anatomica-medico-chirurgica, huc usque edita. 138 (of ?) engraved plates, including additional title and 2 portraits (the first with clean tear). 2 volumes. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 calf, spine ends damaged, covers detached, gathering loose in Volume 1, split between 2 gatherings in middle of Volume 2; occasional browning of text, marginal dampstaining on some plates, the 2 parts of the Opusculum anatomica de fabrica glandularum in Volume 2 are transposed. Amsterdam: apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1737 [i. e., 1725-44]

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Collected edition of Ruysch's major medical and scientific writings and correspondence, including his accounts of the lymphatic system and the female reproductive organs, and the catalogue of his famed collection of anatomical specimens. The contents are as listed in the Elenchus operum Ruyschianorum in Volume 1.