HARVEY, William. Exercitationes de generatione animalum. Quibus accedunt quaedam de partu de membranis ac humoribus uteri & de conceptione, Amsterdam: Johann Ravestyn, 1662, 12°, later edition, engraved title (occasional light spotting) [Harvey 1011; Krivatsy 5347; Waller 4122; Wellcome III, 220] [bound with:] Exercitationes anatomicae, de motu cordis & sanguinis circulatione, Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1671 [engraved title dated 1661], 12°, engraved title, 2 engraved full-page illustrations (lacking the Dissertatio at end, occasional light spotting) [Krivatsy 5336; Waller 4095; Wellcome III, p. 219], two works in one volume, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine.

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HARVEY, William. Exercitationes de generatione animalum. Quibus accedunt quaedam de partu de membranis ac humoribus uteri & de conceptione, Amsterdam: Johann Ravestyn, 1662, 12°, later edition, engraved title (occasional light spotting) [Harvey 1011; Krivatsy 5347; Waller 4122; Wellcome III, 220] [bound with:] Exercitationes anatomicae, de motu cordis & sanguinis circulatione, Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1671 [engraved title dated 1661], 12°, engraved title, 2 engraved full-page illustrations (lacking the Dissertatio at end, occasional light spotting) [Krivatsy 5336; Waller 4095; Wellcome III, p. 219], two works in one volume, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine.

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The second work lacks Jacobus de Back's Dissertatio de corde, written in support of Harvey, but Harvey's De motu cordis is complete.
"Harvey developed the first fundamentally new theory of generation since antiquity and his work represents a major advance in the study of animal reproduction; he himself considered his De generatione animalium to be of greater scientific importance than De motu cordis." (Norman)

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