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DIEMERBROECK, Isbrand van.

Opera omnia anatomica et medica. Nunc simul collecta, & diligenter rec. per T. de Diemerbroeck.

Utrecht: M. a Dreunen, & G. a Walcheren, 1685.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Item #001679

3 parts in one volume. Folio (314 x 195 mm), [18], 568, [6], [16], 303, [1], [2], 130, [2], [4], 70 pp., engr. title, engraved folding portrait of the author and 16 folding anatomical plates. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with 6 raised bands, author's name and title in cript to spine. Interior bright and virtually unspotted. An excellent copy. Complete. ---

Wellcome II, 467; Waller Cat. 2452. - Ysbrand van Diemerbroek (1609-1674) practised medicine in Utrecht and became Professor of Anatomy and Medicine at Leyden. Beside his comprehensive work on anatomy, he is also remembered for his studies of the plague. This collected works were edited by his son Tieman, also a physician.

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