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PINEAU, Severin (ca. 1550-1619). De interitatis & corruptionis virginum notis: De graviditate & partu naturali mulierum -- Luigi BONACIOLI. Enneas muliebris -- Felix PLATTER (1536-1614). De origine partium, earumque in utero consormatione -- Pierre GASSENDI (1592-1655). Elegans de septo cordis pervio observatio. Leiden: Francis Heger & Hack, 1639.
12o (123 x 68 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 3 folding woodcut illustrations, 2 folding tables, several woodcut illustrations in text. (Small repair on a folding table, some minor browning.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance: faint early signature on title-pages.
This collection of works primarily on gynaecology and obstetrics includes the first printing of Gassendi's short text on the perviousness of the septum of the heart following Bonacioli's treatise on foetus formation (first published 1502). It also contains Pineau's frank treatise on virginity, De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis, which contains his demonstration of the vestigial foramen ovale in the adult heart (first published in 1597). Garrison-Morton 802; Norman 876.
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This collection of works primarily on gynaecology and obstetrics includes the first printing of Gassendi's short text on the perviousness of the septum of the heart following Bonacioli's treatise on foetus formation (first published 1502). It also contains Pineau's frank treatise on virginity, De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis, which contains his demonstration of the vestigial foramen ovale in the adult heart (first published in 1597). Garrison-Morton 802; Norman 876.