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SPIGELIUS, ADRIANUS [or SPIEGEL, ADRIAAN VAN DEN]. De formatu foetu tabulae, earumque explanatio. [10] (of [11]) leaves, comprising letterpress part title and 9 (of 10) full-page engraved illustrations, extracted from the first collected edition of Spiegel's works. Folio, 397x269 mm, disbound; paper toned, with light marginal soiling. [Amsterdam, 1645]
Illustrations of the pregnant uterus, placenta, and fetus, first published in the posthumous 1626 original edition of Spigelius's embryological treatise De formatu foetu; without the tenth engraving, depicting the hymen, added in the 1645 collected edition. Choulant-Frank, page 226. Garrison-Morton 61.2; Norman 1987.
