1666 Latin Edition of English Anatomist William Harvey's 'Exercitations de Generatione Animalivm' on Animal Embryology, printed in Padua.
Harvey, William [HARVEI, Guillielmi] (1578-1657) 'Exercitations de Generatione Animalivm: Quibus accedunt quædam de partu: de membranis ac humoribus uteri; and de conceptione' (Exercitations on the Generation of Animals: To which are added certain matters concerning birth: concerning the membranes and humors of the uterus; and concerning conception)
Pub. PATAVII (Padua): Typis Herdum Pauli Frambotti, Bibliop. Superiorum permissu. MDCLXVI [1666]. Collation: 12°; †12, 2†6, A-2B12, 2C6; ($1-6 signed; - †1, †2; D2, D4, D6 missigned as E2, E4, E6); 324 leaves; pp. [36], 1-604, [8] [pp. 74, 75, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86, 87, 90, 91, 94, 95, 194, 195, 198, 199, 202, 203, 206, 207, 210, 211, 214, 215, 242, 243, 379, 419 numbered as 98, 99, 102, 103, 106, 107, 110, 111, 114, 115, 118, 119, 294, 295, 298, 299, 302, 303, 306, 307, 310, 311, 314, 315, 142, 143, 479, 319). Collation Brief: pp.604 plus Elenchvs: - [1]leaf (blank), engr. title, title, [16]leaves, 604pp., [3]leaved, [1]leaf (blank). The engraved title page is in facsimile.
De Generatione first appeared in London in 1651 and was reprinted in Amsterdam the same year. Harvey's work is of very great importance. This Latin edition is of considerable rarity.
Vellum binding, Wear to vellum appropriate to age, firm binding, name to binding, minor tanning and foxing to some pages, some pen and pencil notes to first page otherwise intact.
References: in Keynes, William Harvey: a Bibliography of his Writings, 40; Bibliothoea Walleriana 4123; Russell British Anatomy 381. Obtained by exchange from Erik Waller, 1875-1955, of Stockholm. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell (141x77mm)


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $2,000-4,000