Vater, Abraham (1684-1751) – Swammerdami, Johannis (1637-1680): Dissertatio anatomico pathologica qua uterus gravidus physioligice et pathologice consideratus exposita simul ejus structura sinuosa et orificiorum menses et lochia fundentium fabrica sistitur. Miraculum naturae sive uteri muliebris fabrica , notis in…

Abraham Vater (1684-1751) DISSERTATIO ANATOMICO
PATHOLOGICA QUA UTERUS GRAVIDUS PHYSIOLOGICE ET
PATHOLOGICE CONSIDERATUS EXPOSITA SIMUL EIUS
STRUCTURA SINUOSA

Wittenbergae, apud Viduam Gerdesiam, MDCCXXV (1725)

Description : [small 4to] – pp. 32 + folded woodcut illustration

BOUND WITH :Johannis Swammerdami (1637-1680) MIRACULUM
NATURAE SIVE UTERI MULIEBRIS FABRICA, NOTIS IN D.
JOH. VAN HORNE PRODROMUM ILLUSTRATA, & TABULIS
ADUMBRATA. ADJECTA EST NOVA METHODUS, CAVITATES
CORPORIS ITA PRAEPARANDI, UT SUAM SEMPER
GENUINAM FACIEM SERVENT.

Lugduni Batavorum, apud Joh. Du Vivie, 1717

Description : [small 4to] – pp (6), 57, (b) + 3 copper engraved tables Note : missing 4 leaves A-A(4)

Two works bound together in one volume by the German anatomist and botanist, Abraham
Vater from Wittenberg (1684-1751), and the Dutch biologist and microscopist Johannis
Swammerdam (1637-1680) about the physiology and patology of uterine structure and its
tissues in time of pregnancy. The first work includes a 1 folded copper engraved ´Figura
Uterus a IV mensibus gravidus´ ( picture of the uterus at the fourth month of pregnancy) and
the second work other 3 folded copper engraved tables with sections and structure of the
uterus. The Miraculum Naturae treatise by Swimmerdam is unfortunately incomplete as it is
lacking the gathering ´A´ for a total of 4 leaves. Nearly contemporary binding in full
parchment with handwritten title on spine, exlibris on first pastdown and waterstain on
titlepage apparently due to a washed away circular stamp, second titlepage in double ink red
and black with woodcut printer´s device, a written blue ink note on the right margin.

Cfr.: ICCU Istituto Centrale Per Il Catalogo Unico, ref. ICCU\MILE\019208 (vater) , ref. .
ICCU\PUVE\011482 ( swammerdam).