Two Facsimile Volumes of Nathaniel Highmore's 1651 'The History of Generation' from the British Museum (one incomplete)
HIGHMORE, Nathaniel (1613-1685), 'The history of generation examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenslow Digby in his Discoveries of Bodies. With a general relation of the manner of generation, as well in plants and animals: with some figures delineating the first originals of some creatures, evidently demonstrating the rest. To which is joyned a discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy. Or without any real applycation of medicines to the part affected, but especially by that powder, known chiefly by the name of Sir Gilbert Talbot's Powder'. Pub. LONDON: Printed by R. N. for John Martin, and are to be sold at the Bell in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1651. Copy of British Museum edition by University Microfilms, Inc. Ann Arbor, London.
'Highmore is remembered for his description of the 'antrum of Highmore' (already noticed by Casserius and figured by Leonardo da Vinci), the seminal ducts and the epididymis.' (Garrison & Morton 382).
1) Collation: 8° 8 A-I8 ($1-4 signed) 80 leaves; pp. [16] 1-141 [3]. Two Plates. Blue paperbound reprint with typed label, clean copy with minor tanning with a little sunning on the cover. Reference: Russell British Anatomy 415. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell (184x112mm)
2) Incomplete - lacks plates and all pages after 112. Smaller Blue paperbound reprint with typed label, clean copy with minor tanning with a little sunning on the cover. Reference: Russell British Anatomy 415. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell (149x92mm)


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

Estimate $100-150