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Harvey, William
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- Harvey, William
- Anatomical Exercitations, Concerning the Generation of Living Creatures: to which are added particular discourses of births, and of conception, &c... London: James Young, for Octavian Pulleyn, 1653
- paper, ink, leather
8vo (170 x 110 mm). Engraved portrait of the author (often lacking); intermittent light spotting to a few fore-margins. Contemporary calf; rebacked with spine preserved.
Literature
Wing H1085; Keynes, Harvey 43; Krivatsy 5351; Norman 1012; Wellcome 9652899
Catalogue Note
First edition in English of Harvey's influential study of all aspects of conception and birth. His argument that all animal life arose from eggs, for example, has been of crucial importance in the history of embryology. According to Keynes, many copies of the book may never have contained the engraved portrait.