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Harvey, William. Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam de Partu: de Membranis ac humoribus Uteri: et de Conceptione.

With additional engr. title. 568 pp., 3 leaves index, 1 blank leaf. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. – Amsterdam, Ludovicus Elzevirius, 1651.

First Elzevier and first continental edition of this important medical treatiese on embryology in which Harvey (1578–1657) denies the theory of preformation which was hitherto the standard opinion. – Willems 1129; Brunet III, 54. – Fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 23774