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FABRICI, Girolamo. Opera omnia anatomica et physiologica. Leiden: Johann van Kerck, 1738.
2o (331 x 211 mm). Half-title. Engraved frontispiece and 58 plates, several of which are folding (some light foxing). (Some light foxing and browning to text, frontispiece and title-page with lower margin renewed, last leaf (register) patched.) Contemporary half vellum, uncut (corners lightly bumped, pastedown repaired). Provenance: Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), the noted Swiss anatomist and physiologist (bookplate with Haller's motto and signature on front free endpaper).
Later edition. Fabricius, who was a teacher of William Harvey in Padua, discovered the venous valves, and although he failed to recognize their true function, he must have influenced Harvey in his experimental efforts. Fabricius also wrote extensively on embryology, and recorded for the first time the dissection of several embryos. NLM/Blake, p. 141. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.
2o (331 x 211 mm). Half-title. Engraved frontispiece and 58 plates, several of which are folding (some light foxing). (Some light foxing and browning to text, frontispiece and title-page with lower margin renewed, last leaf (register) patched.) Contemporary half vellum, uncut (corners lightly bumped, pastedown repaired). Provenance: Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), the noted Swiss anatomist and physiologist (bookplate with Haller's motto and signature on front free endpaper).
Later edition. Fabricius, who was a teacher of William Harvey in Padua, discovered the venous valves, and although he failed to recognize their true function, he must have influenced Harvey in his experimental efforts. Fabricius also wrote extensively on embryology, and recorded for the first time the dissection of several embryos. NLM/Blake, p. 141. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.