PINEAU, SEVERIN; et al.
De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis; graviditate & partu naturali mulierum, opusculum. [With: Lodovico Bonaccioli, Enneas muliebris; Felix Platter, De origine partium, earumque in utero conformatione; Pierre Gassendi, De septo cordis pervio, observation; and Melchior Sebitz, De notis virginitatis]. Leiden: Heger, 1640 [engraved title dated 1641].
De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis; graviditate & partu naturali mulierum, opusculum. [With: Lodovico Bonaccioli, Enneas muliebris; Felix Platter, De origine partium, earumque in utero conformatione; Pierre Gassendi, De septo cordis pervio, observation; and Melchior Sebitz, De notis virginitatis]. Leiden: Heger, 1640 [engraved title dated 1641].
12mo (123 x 71 mm). Folding woodcut plates; a few woodcut illustrations in text, and folding table. Contemporary vellum, spine darkened, some minor staining.
Provenance: C.H. Fuchs (bookplate).
Collection of gynecological and obstetrical texts. "In 1595 Pineau demonstrated the vestigial foramen ovale in the adult heart, settling the question of the perviousness of the septum of the heart. His work was first published in 1597. He published this study in a frank treatise on virginity and the ways of losing it." (see Garrison-Morton-Norman 802). Wellcome (online) 14304385.
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De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis; graviditate & partu naturali mulierum, opusculum. [With: Lodovico Bonaccioli, Enneas muliebris; Felix Platter, De origine partium, earumque in utero conformatione; Pierre Gassendi, De septo cordis pervio, observation; and Melchior Sebitz, De notis virginitatis]. Leiden: Heger, 1640 [engraved title dated 1641].
De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis; graviditate & partu naturali mulierum, opusculum. [With: Lodovico Bonaccioli, Enneas muliebris; Felix Platter, De origine partium, earumque in utero conformatione; Pierre Gassendi, De septo cordis pervio, observation; and Melchior Sebitz, De notis virginitatis]. Leiden: Heger, 1640 [engraved title dated 1641].
12mo (123 x 71 mm). Folding woodcut plates; a few woodcut illustrations in text, and folding table. Contemporary vellum, spine darkened, some minor staining.
Provenance: C.H. Fuchs (bookplate).
Collection of gynecological and obstetrical texts. "In 1595 Pineau demonstrated the vestigial foramen ovale in the adult heart, settling the question of the perviousness of the septum of the heart. His work was first published in 1597. He published this study in a frank treatise on virginity and the ways of losing it." (see Garrison-Morton-Norman 802). Wellcome (online) 14304385.
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