VELPEAU, Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie. Embryologie ou ovologie humaine contenant l'histoire descriptive et iconographique de l'oeuf humain. 1833.

Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1833.

Large Folio (433x275 mm), (4)-xxviii-4-104-(2) pages and 15 plates.  binding : Moder quarter cald. Original printed wrappers bound in. Minor waterstains. 

references: Heirs of Hippocrates [1527 : " This general work on human embryology was very well received and went through two more editions in France, two in Germany and, was also published in Italy. The fifteen plates which follow the text depict the various stages in the development of the human fetus. Many of the figures in these plates were taken from the work of contemporary authors whom Velpeau readily acknowledges in the book"].

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