Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 560

GERARDUS BLASIUS (1626?-1692?) Anatome animalium. Sumptibus viduae Joannis à Someren, Henrici & viduae Theodori Boom 1681 [8] 494 [2] pp., 60 plates. 26.3 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 558

This work is "the first comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original and literary researches of a working anatomist" (Francis J. Cole, History of comparative anatomy. London, 1944. pp. 150-151). The sixty engraved plates in this work treat seventy-eight species of animals. An engraved title page, preceding the regular title page, contains figures that are of unusual allegorical interest.

Cited references: Cushing B434; Garrison-Morton 296; Wellcome II, p. 179

Gift of John Martin, M.D.