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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]
[800/1,200]
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 engrav-
ing, depicting the hymen, added in the 1645 collected edition. Choulant-Frank, page 226.
Garrison-Morton 61.2; Norman 1987.
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STRIEGLER, ONOPHRIUS POLYCARPUS [pseud.].
Episteln über die kri-
tische Perturbation des heutigen Arztenthums.
xxii, 154 pages, including etched
frontispiece. 8vo, 182x115 mm, contemporary boards, worn, front joint partly cracked, rear
joint worn; scattered foxing, old institutional stamps and offsetting from frontispiece on
title.
[Nuremberg: Grathenauer], 1786
[150/250]
FIRST EDITION
of a polemic against the dominant influence of physicians and inferior status of
surgeons in contemporary medical education and practice.
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