[Anatomy] Blasius, G. Anatome animalium, terrestrium variorum,

volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, insectorum, ovorumque, structuram naturalem ex veterum, recentiorum, propriisque observationibus proponens, figuris variis illustrata. Amst., A. van Someren and Hendrik and widow Th. Boom, 1681, (8),496 p., w. engr. frontisp. by J. Luyken, num. ills. on 5 engr. plates and 60 full-p. engravings, cont. vellum, 4to. Some browning/ foxing, two plates printed upside down (the text verso correctly placed). Backcover stained. Good copy, w. owner's stamps "Whitman" on enpapers, old oener's ininitials "JMH" in blank lower margin of frontisp. and engr. bookplate "Biblioth: Wagneriana" on verso frontisp. (causing wrinkles and a stain in the leaf).

Garrison & Morton 296 ("the first general systematic treatise on comparative anatomy"); Nissen ZBI 381; Wood p. 243 ("well known and important early treatise"). In this work, Gerard Blasius (or Blaes, ca 1625-1692) combined some of his earlier writings as well as those by other scientists in the field. The section on the anatomy of dogs deserves special attention.