[Medicine] C. Stalpartii vander Wiel. Observationum rariorum

medic. anatomic. chirurgicarum. Centuria Prior, Accedit De unicornu dissertatio. Centuria Posterioris accedit De nutritione foetus excercitatio. Editiio novissima. Leiden, J. van Kerkhem, 1727, 2 volumes, (30),516,(16); (2),568,(28) p., with 2 engraved titles, an engraved portrait and 25 (folding) engraved plates, contemporary uniform half vellum.

With library stamp on both titles and "duplicate/ withdrawn" label on inside front board; interior hinges vulnerable. Good, uncut copy. New, extended edition of a collection of curious diseases (e.g. ichthyosis, scaly skin) and pathological anatomy, with treatises on the unicorn and feeding an unborn child (the latter with separate title page). The first edition appeared in 1687.