NUCK, ADENOGRAPHIA, 1696

ADENOGRAPHIA CURIOSA ET UTERI FOEMINEI ANATOME NOVA. Authore ANTONIO NUCK, Med.Doct. In Academia Lugduno-Batava Medicine Anatomicae Professore, & Collegii Chirurgici Praeside. Accedit in hac nova Editione DISSERTATIO ÁNATOMICO-MEDICA INAUGURALIS, DE MOTU BILIS CIRCULARI ejusque morbis, OLIM Publicè proposita à Clarissimo VIRO MAURITIO VAN REVERHORST, h. t. Anatomes Professore Hagae-Comitis. LUGDUNI BATAVORUM, Apud JORD. LUCHTMANS, 1696.
 
Early speckled brown leather over boards, respined at some point, with compartments of original spine laid down between bands. Some scuffs. Corners bumped and chipped. University library book plate on front paste down. End papers toned at edges. 18th century ink note on verso of rfep. Engraved title followed by full title. Early ink name penned on pg 1. Decorative capitals. Nine folding plates at end of first work. Followed by second title page. Two plates at rear of book. Clean, bright, and tight throughout, with plates all intact.
Ffep, blank, engraved title, title, (12), 152, (22), (4), 9 plates, title, (1), 3-64, 2 plates, blank, rfep.
 
G-M 1213 for first edition of 1691: “Nuck, Antonj. 1650 – 1692, Adenographia… 1691. Description of the ‘canal of Nuck’.”
 
Collation of our copy more closely corresponds with Waller 6913 (1722 edition with 9 and 2 plates and same numbered pages) than Waller 6912 (1692 edition).
 
6 3/8 x 4 1/8 x 1 inches