Lot 279
Animal anatomy.- Severino (Marco-Aurelio) Zootomia Democritæa: Idest, Anatome Generalis totius...
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Animal anatomy.- Severino (Marco-Aurelio) Zootomia Democritæa: Idest, Anatome Generalis totius animantium Opisicii, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 2 portraits (lightly offset), woodcut illustrations, foxing and browning, contemporary calf, paper labels to spines, splitting to joints, rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 3830; Wood p.564], 4to, Nurnberg, Literis Endterianis, 1645.
*** "This is the first printed book to deal exclusively with Zootomy. It is exceedingly rare." (Wood). It predates Malpighi, Leeuwenhoek and Swammerdam. Aurelio Severino (1580-1656) corresponded with many important physicians and scientists such as William Harvey, John Houghton, Thomas Bartholin, Ole Worms, Volckamer and J.Vesling.
Provenance: The Earls of Macclesfield (South Library bookplate and small embossed stamps).
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