REGNERI DE GRAAF
OPERA OMNIA
LUGDUNI
SUMPT. IO. ANT. HUGUETAN & SOC. 1678
Edition of 1678 of this opera omnia by the dutch physician Reinier de Graaf (1641-1673).
De Graaf discovered follycoles of ovaries and demonstrated the ovulation anatomically, pathologically and experimentally. he became famous for his studies about pancreas and reproductive organs of mammals.
Inside there are the following works: De virorum organis, Epistola, De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus, Partium Genitalium defensio, Tractatus anatomico medicus de succi pancreatici, Tractatus de clysteribus.
The text is enriched by 41 folded plates featuring anatomical parts and instruments.
The portrait of the author is mising.
In very good conditions.
Full leather coeval cover with gilted title and decorations in the spine in fair conditions lightly worn in the extremities. Light and parial crack of the front hidge. Binding in good conditions. Pages in good conditions with occasional foxing and light loss of portion of texts until page 7. In 8. cm 20x12,5. Pp. XX+390+(1)+41pl. .