Description
Anatome Animalium. Amsterdam: Joannis à Someren 1681. First edition, 4to, contemporary quarter vellum and marbled boards, spine lettered in ink, vellum tips to boards, uncut throughout, (3) + 496pp, engraved frontispiece, 65 fine engraved plates, ownership in ink on the front blank leaf "W.Hurd M.D. e Coll.Eden 1751", first few leaves dust stained, sides slightly rubbed; [Garrison & Morton, 296. Cole, History of Comparative Anatomy pp.150-155. Singer, History of Biology pp.208-9. Wood, Literature of vertebrate zoology p.243. Thornton, Scientific Books, pp.128-9]
Footnote
Note: First edition of the first comprehensive treatise on comparative anatomy.