Icones embryonum humanorum by SOEMMERRING, Samuel Theodor von - 1799

Frankfurt a. M.: Varrentrapp u. Wenner, 1799. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Imperial folio. "Large Folio, broadsheets (630x450 mm). 2 engraved plates after Christian Kock by F.L Neubauer, Hullmann and Klauber, vignette title, vignette on final leaf (some pale dampstaining.) Sewn in contemporary plain pastepaper boards (a little soiled); cloth portfolio. ---- Choulant-Frank, p.307; Heirs of Hippocrates 704; Waller 9045. - FIRST EDITION. ""Soemmerring met William Hunter during a visit to London in 1778. The latter's classic work on the pregnant uterus dealt only with the latter half of pregnancy. Soemmerring therefore decided, in a supplementary volume, to deal with the appearance of the embryo during the first half of pregnancy. This book is one of the best illustrated of Soemmering's works"" (Garrison-Morton 473) and ranks among the most valuable works of Soemmerring and is even today useful and highly appreciated"" (Choulant-Frank, p.307)."