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2 engraved plates: numbered Tab I–II, signed ‘Auctor ad. nat. del’
(bound as throwouts on full blank leaves at the end).
200 x 120mm.
Binding: Nineteenth century boards. Worn.
Provenance: Early signature P. Wagner on free endleaf.
Second edition (Wrst 1759). Wellcome V, p. 460; Blake p. 494; Waller
11038.
This edition adds a foreword dated 4 November 1773, a long ‘Praemonenda
de theoria generationis’ and an index replying to criticisms (pp. xi–lxiv), but
omits the ‘Expositio et ratio instituti’ and ‘Conspectus dissertationis’ in the
Wrst edition (1759, pp. 5–11).
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WOLFF, Caspar Friedrich (1733–1794)
Über die Bildung des Darmkanals im bebrüteten Hühnchen.
uebersetzt und mit einer einleitenden Abhandlung und Anmerkungen
versehen von Johann Friedrich Meckel.
Halle: in der Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1812.
8vo, pp. 263 [1].
2 engraved plates, numbered Taf I–II, signed ‘C. F. Wolf Bildg. d.
Darmkls.’ (bound as throwouts on full blank leaves at the end).
201 x 120mm. A good fresh and clean copy.
Binding: Contemporary marbled boards, gilt bands and lettering on
spine. Spine ends and corners rubbed.
Provenance: Old initials or shelf mark ‘I.W.17.’ on pastedown.
First German and Wrst book edition, a translation by J. F. Meckel of ‘De
formatione intestinorum praecipue’, Novi Commentarii Academiae
Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, 12 (1768) 43–47 and 13 (1769)
478–530. Wellcome V, p. 460; Waller 11989.
‘One of the acknowledged classics of embryology. WolV’s description of
the formation of the chick’s intestine by the rolling inwards of a leaf­like
layer of the blastoderm was important as proving his theory of epigensesis.’
(Garrison–Morton 471.)
‘The publication of Meckel’s translation of WolV’s treatise on the formation
of the intestines of the chick was an event whose importance, in view of the
profound inXuence which this work exerted upon Pander and von Baer, it
would be diYcult to overestimate.’ (Adelmann.)
Meckel added a 56 page introduction and notes.
Howard B. Adelmann, Marcel Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology, (1966),
iv, pp. 1652–1702.