RUYSCH, Frederik - Opera Omnia Anatomico-Medico-Chirurgica [Volume 1 Only. ]

1721. RUYSCH, Frederik. OPERA OMNIA ANATOMICO-MEDICO-CHIRURGICA. [VOLUME 1 only.] Huc usque edita. Quorum Elenchus pagina sequenti exhibetur. Cum figuris aeneis. Amstelodami, apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1721. Engraved title-page showing the interior of one of Ruysch's museums, dated 1720, + 65 sheets of engraved illustrations and 6 text illustrations. One quarto volume. The condition of the text leaves and illustrations is very good overall, showing only occasional toning, soiling, or foxing. This volume will need to be rebound. The top board is detached and most of the backstrip is missing. The condition of the text leaves and illustrations is very good overall, showing only occasional toning, soiling, or foxing. The volume will need to be rebound. The top board is detached and most of the backstrip is missing.The Opera Omnia is a bibliographically complex work that is comprised of separately published works by Ruysch or of works addressed to him by others, either in early or reprinted editions. This volume of Opera Omnia has eighteen of the thirty-two titles listed in the table of contents. The eighteen component works, in varying editions, were all published at Amsterdam between 1696-1721 by either J. Wolters, J. Pauli, or Jansson & Waesberge. The general matter in this set includes a collective title-page, dated 1721, an engraved title-page showing the interior of one of Ruysch's museums, dated 1720, and a four-page table of contents. Contents include Dilucidatio valvularum in vasis lymphatics, et lacteis (1720), Observationum anatomico-chirurgicarum centuria (1721), sixteen Epistola anatomica problematica (1696-1721) written by various authors with Ruysch's replies. (A complete and detailed list of the contents of this volume is available upon request.) Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731), a Dutch anatomist and botanist, was professor of anatomy at Leyden and Amsterdam. He is notable for his method of injecting vessels and for his mastery of anatomical preparations (- the preparation and preservation of specimens). Ruysch showed his preparations in a series of popular exhibitions in small rented houses in Amsterdam. His "cabinet" caught the eye of Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, who purchased it in 1717. Ruysch made a great number of discoveries in anatomy over the course of his long career; among them, the first description. .

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