FABRICI, Girolamo. De gula, ventriculo, intestinis tractatus . Padua: Lorenzo Pasquato, 1618. 4 o (205 x 145 mm). (Some pale dampstaining in lower margin, small unobtrusive wormtracks in upper margin.) Contemporary vellum (some light soiling.) FIRST EDITION. Waller 2884; Wellcome I:2122. [ Bound with: ] FABRICI. De musculi artificio, de ossium dearticulationibus . Venice: Pietro Bertelli, 1614. 4 o . FIRST EDITION. Wellcome I:2121. FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO OF FABRICI'S MONOGRAPHS ON ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. Fabrici's "was an indefatigable and scrupulous observer, describing his results with exactitude... [His] primary purpose in his studies of fetal anatomy, for example, was to prepare a tool for the interpretation of the purpose and end of the organs under considerations he was more concerned with finding philosophically based principles than with morphological detail and tended to modify observations that did not verify such principles" (DSB). These two works, along with 8 other studies published between 1600 and 1618, may be considered parts of Fabrici's uncompleted but monumental Totius animalsi fabricae theatrum which he meant to publish. The first work reveals Fabrici's investigations on the throat, stomach and intestines and the second concerns various aspects of muscles and joints. All of Fabrici's monographs are scarce, with neither of these appearing in American Book Prices Current in at least 30 years.
FABRICI, Girolamo. De gula, ventriculo, intestinis tractatus . Padua: Lorenzo Pasquato, 1618. 4 o (205 x 145 mm). (Some pale dampstaining in lower margin, small unobtrusive wormtracks in upper margin.) Contemporary vellum (some light soiling.) FIRST EDITION. Waller 2884; Wellcome I:2122. [ Bound with: ] FABRICI. De musculi artificio, de ossium dearticulationibus . Venice: Pietro Bertelli, 1614. 4 o . FIRST EDITION. Wellcome I:2121. FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO OF FABRICI'S MONOGRAPHS ON ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. Fabrici's "was an indefatigable and scrupulous observer, describing his results with exactitude... [His] primary purpose in his studies of fetal anatomy, for example, was to prepare a tool for the interpretation of the purpose and end of the organs under considerations he was more concerned with finding philosophically based principles than with morphological detail and tended to modify observations that did not verify such principles" (DSB). These two works, along with 8 other studies published between 1600 and 1618, may be considered parts of Fabrici's uncompleted but monumental Totius animalsi fabricae theatrum which he meant to publish. The first work reveals Fabrici's investigations on the throat, stomach and intestines and the second concerns various aspects of muscles and joints. All of Fabrici's monographs are scarce, with neither of these appearing in American Book Prices Current in at least 30 years.
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