Specimina Anatomica, cum clarriss. doctissimorumque virorum epistolis aliquot & testimoniis

by Lodewijk de Bils

$3,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Extremely rare group of anatomical pamphlets in their first Latin edition by Lodewijk de Bils (1624-1670), a nobleman from Flanders, who advertised a chemical method of turning bodies into transparent teaching tools by preserving and embalming them in a wax-like substance. The sammelband includes his treatises on the gall-bladder (Epistolica..... More

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