De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. . .

by Karl Ernst von Baer

$25,000 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1827. 4to. viii , 40, 2 pp. FIRST EDITION. With half-title, corrigenda, and 1 full-page hand-coloured engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; a fine copy on bright white paper from the library of Tho. Wainwright, with his armorial book plate. Item #13369 DISCOVERY OF THE HUMAN OVUM. First edition of Baer’s famous discovery of the

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