Gerard BLAES, Thomas SYDENHAM
Observationes medicae rariores in quibus multa ad anatomiam et medicinam spectantia deteguntur. Accedit Monstri triplicis historia/ Integri processus in morbis sere omnibus curandis...
Henricum Westenium • apud Henricum & Johanem Boom|Amstelodami [Amsterdam] • (Amsterdam) 1700, 1694|16 x 9.50 cm|relié
Rare second edition by Blaes illustrated with 12 plates. Rare edition by Thomas Syndenham, not found in European libraries. We do not know if this is the first. Title pages in red and black. Absent from Brunet.
Contemporary full calf binding, decorated spine with raised bands, red morocco title label. Rubbing.
This work by Gerard Blaes (1625-1692), Dutch physicist, anatomist (he was the creator of comparative anatomy) and physician who practiced in Amsterdam and was a famous leader in his field, is one of the most celebrated treatises on teratology, the science of monsters.
Thomas Syndenham (1624-1689) was an English physicist and phys
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