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SOEMMERRING, SAMUEL THOMAS VON. Icones Embryonum Humanorum. 2 engraved plates with multiple subjects. [2], 10 pages. Folio, 635x463 mm, original boards, worn and loose, bottom portion of covers and contents dampstained with traces of mold. Frankfurt am Main: Varrentrapp & Wenner, 1799
first edition. Conceived as an appendix to Hunter's Anatomia uteri humani gravidi, Soemmerring's work "presents the illustration, there missing, of a succession of embryos in the earlier period of pregnancy and the embryo with its covering in the later period . . . This ranks among the most valuable works of Soemmerring"--Choulant-Frank, page 307. Garrison-Morton 473.
