Elementorum myologiae specimen: seu musculi descriptio geometrica. Cui accedunt canis carchariae dissectum caput, et dissectus piscis ex canum genere.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1669. With many woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in the text and 7 engraved folding plates with figures and tables.With: (2) HOBOKEN, Nicolaas. Anatomia secundinae humanae, quindecim figuris ad vivum propriâ autoris manu delineatis, illustrata. ... Cum annexo S. Specilegio epistolarum, rem potissimum generatoriam referentium.Utrecht, Joannes Ribbius, 1669. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page portrait of Nicolaas Hoboken by C. Hagens facing the frontispiece and 15 figures on 8 engraved folding plates.8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, blue edges.

[1 blank], [1], 221, [11]; [1], [1 blank], 148, [3], [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: Second edition, in the original Latin, of a famous and foundational study of the physiology and structure of muscles and the formation of fossils, by the world-renowned Nicolas Steno or Niels Stensen (1638-1686). Stensen was a pupil of the important Danish physician Bartolin in Copenhagen and is widely considered as the founder of modern geology and young-earth creationism. He has been recognized as having made some of the first truly great discoveries in geology. Living in Florence in the service of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, he first published his findings in his Elementorum myologiae specimen in Florence in 1667, showing how the teeth of a shark came to be mineralized. This was an enormous contribution to the study of fossils. Using the Bible framework Stensen developed one of the earliest directional geological accounts on the history of earth and life.Ad 2: First edition of an important treatise on the anatomy of the uterus by Nicolaas Hoboken (Utrecht 1632 - ca. 1675) with his engraved portrait. He dedicated his work to the famous Dutch physician Nicolaas Tulp (the professor in Rembrandt’s “Anatomy lesson”). The text of the treatise appears on pp. 12-48, followed by the explanations on pp. 49-66 of the plates bound at the end of the book. The Specilegium epistolarum, rem potissimum generatoriam referentium appears on pp. 67-219, followed by the contents, index and errata.In this convolute the work by Hoboken (ad 2) is bound before Steno's Elementorum myologiae specimen (ad 1). Some small stains on the binding, otherwise in very good condition.l Ad 1: BMN I, p. 87; Eloy IV, pp. 319, 321; Garrison & Morton 577; Waller 9224. Ad 2: BMN I, p. 87, II, p. 36; Eloy II, p. 539-540; III, p. 332; Heirs of Hippocrates 583; Krivatsky 5754; Waller 4615; cf. Wellcome III, p. 280 (later ed.).