TH. KERCKRINGII SPICILEGIUM ANATOMICUM.

Beschrijving

Titlepage to Kerckring’s Anatomy book published in Amsterdam in 1670: ‘Spicilegium anatomicum : continens observationum anatomicarum rariorum centuriam unam : nec non osteogeniam foetuum, in qua quid cuique ossiculo singulis accedat mensibus, quidve decedat & in eo per varia immutetur tempora, accuratissimè oculis subjicitur’. A woman is standing with a knife in her hand, in the act of removing the skin from a corpse. Two children in the foreground are offering some spikes to the woman. Signed on the bottom right: ‘A. Blotelingh Sculp.’ and lettered below: ‘AMSTELODAMI, Sumptibus ANDREAE FRISII, MDCLXX.’