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69 2621 Medicine Tulp N 69/2621 [Medicine]. Tulp, N. Observationes medicae. Amst., D. Elzevier, 1672, (14),392p., engr. frontisp., portr. and 18 plates, contemp. calf w. gilt spine and red mor. letterpiece, sm. 8vo. - Partly (sl.) foxed; early 20th cent. annots. in pen on first free endpaper. Corners showing; upper hinge rubbed/ weak. = The 3rd and last Elzevier edition. Willems 1481; Bibl. Walleriana I, 9717; Krivatsy 12009; Garrison/ Morton 3737: "One of the earliest accounts of beri-beri. Tulp, notable as the demonstrator in Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson", was among the first, in the same book, to describe the ileo-caecal valve ("Tulp's valve")." Also contains some remarkable plates, i.a. of Siamese twins, a narwal and one of the earliest plates of the chimpanzee (here named erroneously "Orang-outang").