Vater, Abraham – Swammerdami, Johannis: Dissertatio anatomico pathologica qua uterus gravidus physioligice et pathologice (1725)

Abraham Vater (1684-1751)

DISSERTATIO ANATOMICO PATHOLOGICA QUA UTERUS GRAVIDUS PHYSIOLOGICE ET PATHOLOGICE CONSIDERATUS EXPOSITA SIMUL EIUS STRUCTURA SINUOSA

Wittenbergae, apud Viduam Gerdesiam, MDCCXXV (1725)

Description : [small 4to] – pp. 32 + folded woodcut illustration

BOUND WITH :

Johannis Swammerdami (1637-1680)

MIRACULUM NATURAE SIVE UTERI MULIEBRIS FABRICA, NOTIS IN D. JOH. VAN HORNE PRODROMUM ILLUSTRATA, & TABULIS ADUMBRATA. ADJECTA EST NOVA METHODUS, CAVITATES CORPORIS ITA PRAEPARANDI, UT SUAM SEMPER GENUINAM FACIEM SERVENT.

Lugduni Batavorum, apud Joh. Du Vivie, 1717

Description : [small 4to] – pp (6), 57, (b) + 3 copper engraved tables. Note : missing 4 leaves A-A(4)

Two works bound together in one volume by the German anatomist and botanist, Abraham Vater from Wittenberg (1684-1751), and the Dutch biologist and microscopist Johannis Swammerdam (1637-1680) about the physiology and pathology of uterine structure and its tissues in time of pregnancy. The first work includes a 1 folded copper engraved ´Figura Uterus a IV mensibus gravidus´ (picture of the uterus at the fourth month of pregnancy) and the second work other 3 folded copper engraved tables with sections and structure of the uterus. The Miraculum Naturae treatise by Swimmerdam is unfortunately incomplete as it is lacking the gathering ´A´ for a total of 4 leaves.

Nearly contemporary binding in full parchment with handwritten title on spine, exlibris on first pastdown and waterstain on titlepage apparently due to a washed away circular stamp, second titlepage in double ink red and black with woodcut printer’s device, a written blue ink note on the right margin.

Cfr.: ICCU Istituto Centrale Per Il Catalogo Unico, ref. ICCU\MILE\019208 (vater) , ref. .
ICCU\PUVE\011482 ( Swammerdam).