RUEFF, Jacob (1500-1558). De conceptu et generatione hominis . Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1554. 4 o (210 x 139 mm). Full-page woodcut on title verso showing a birthing room, 65 other woodcut illustrations, 7 of them full-page, of reproductive organs, surgical instruments, birth deformities, etc. (Scattered soiling, some minor stains.) Contemporary English calf over pasteboard, panelled covers decorated with foliate rolls incoporating two bird devices (see Oldham, FP.f(6)679), original vellum spine liners cut from a 15th-century English(?) manuscript (rebacked with original backstrip preserved, corners repaired). Provenance : Early owner's calligraphic signature on title, apparently English; William Brodie of Brodie (armorial bookplate). First Edition in Latin (an edition in German was published by Froschauer in Zurich the same year), translated by Wolfgang Haller. Rueff's work is "an improved version of Rsslin's Der swangern frauwen . Its importance to the embryologist lies in Rueff's illustrations, which show contemporary ideas about mammalian embryology" (Garrison-Morton 463). BM/STC German p. 759; Garrison-Morton 463 and 6141 (German edition); NLM/Durling 3980; Norman 1856.
RUEFF, Jacob (1500-1558). De conceptu et generatione hominis . Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1554. 4 o (210 x 139 mm). Full-page woodcut on title verso showing a birthing room, 65 other woodcut illustrations, 7 of them full-page, of reproductive organs, surgical instruments, birth deformities, etc. (Scattered soiling, some minor stains.) Contemporary English calf over pasteboard, panelled covers decorated with foliate rolls incoporating two bird devices (see Oldham, FP.f(6)679), original vellum spine liners cut from a 15th-century English(?) manuscript (rebacked with original backstrip preserved, corners repaired). Provenance : Early owner's calligraphic signature on title, apparently English; William Brodie of Brodie (armorial bookplate). First Edition in Latin (an edition in German was published by Froschauer in Zurich the same year), translated by Wolfgang Haller. Rueff's work is "an improved version of Rsslin's Der swangern frauwen . Its importance to the embryologist lies in Rueff's illustrations, which show contemporary ideas about mammalian embryology" (Garrison-Morton 463). BM/STC German p. 759; Garrison-Morton 463 and 6141 (German edition); NLM/Durling 3980; Norman 1856.
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