Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam. De partu: de Membranis <br>ac Humoribus Uteri & de Conceptione (Amsterdam edition, 1651)

Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium. 1651. Amsterdam edition (text in Latin), 12mo, pp.(xxxii), 415, (iv, Index), engraved woodcut vignette title page, head-pieces and initials, frontispiece depicting Jove holding a bisected egg showing human figures and animals released, pages lightly tanned, some staining to margins of pp.168 & 168, prev. owner’s name to r.f.e.p. [Western Australian bookseller (and scientist), J.R. Johnstone], rebacked, contemporary leather with small blind embossed floral corners, very good condition. The Amsterdam edition published in 1651, same year as the London first edition. The most important treatise on embryology of the 17th century and the second great work by the English physician, William Harvey (1578-1657), the first to describe in detail his theory of blood circulation. Harvey was also the first scientist to write on the practical application of scientific knowledge to gynaecology and included in this work is a chapter ‘De Partu’ on Midwifery, the first English writing in obstetrics. 1st edition thus.