Anatome Animalium, terrestrium variorum, volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, insectorum, ovorumque, structuram naturalem ex veterum, recentiorum, propriisque observationibus proponens, figuris variis illustrata.
first edition Hardcover
1681 · Amsterdam
by [Blasius] BLAES, Gerard
Amsterdam: widow of Johannes van Someren, Hendrik and widow of Dirk Boom, 1681. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 4to. With full-page engraved frontispiece by J. Luyken, and 60 numbered and 5 unnumbered full-page engravings. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Garrison & Morton 296; Krivatsy 1339; Nissen, ZBI 381; Wellcome II, p. 179; Wood, p. 243. "The first general systematic treatise on comparative anatomy" (Garrison & Morton) and a "well known and important early treatise" (Wood). (Inventory #: LD15296)