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KERCKRING, THEODOR. Spicelegium anatomicum. 8 (of 9) folding engraved plates and 30 text illustrations; lacks plate to face page 273 showing fetus
KERCKRING, THEODOR. Spicelegium anatomicum. 8 (of 9) folding engraved plates and 30 text illustrations; lacks plate to face page 273 showing fetus at 7 months. [24], 280 pages, including engraved additional title. 4to, contemporary vellum, soiled, spine stained, front hinge cracked; some light marginal dampstaining, portion of blank outer margin missing from additional title, 2*2.3 folded backward, dark stain on page 4 obscuring a few words and showing through illustration on recto, plate 30 bound upside down. Bookplate of Howard A. Kelly. Amsterdam: sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1670
- Notes: first edition of a 2-part work comprising a collection of anatomical observations, including Kerckring's description of the valves in the small intestine named for him, followed by his important study of fetal bone development. Garrison-Morton 383; Heirs of Hippocrates 632; Krivatsy 6346; Norman 1209.
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