Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 437

WILLIAM HARVEY (1578-1657) Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Apud Joannem Janssonium 1651 [34] 415 [4] pp. 13.3 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 416

This may be the second of the three Amsterdam editions and was published by Joannes Jansson. This copy contains the engraved title page showing Jove seated on a pedestal holding an egg in his hands. He has raised the upper half of the egg with his right hand to reveal animals, insects, and plants springing forth from the lower half. At his side is an eagle clutching thunderbolts in its talons.

Cited references: Cushing H160; Keynes 37; Osler 711; Russell 378; Waller 4121; Wellcome III, p. 220

Gift of John Martin, M.D.