BIRCHEROD, THOMAS BRODER.

Historia Naturalis Qvatuor Costarum Bubularum, Quibus quae super inducta caro fuerat, in verissimum os est conversa cum Observationibus aliis huc pertinentibus & Figuris aeri incifis Conscripta.

Hafnia, Wieland, 1723.

4to. I contemporary half calf. Wear to extremities, lower part of spine with loss of leather. Previous owner's name to pasted down front end-paper. Small stamp to title-page. Quire A-D partly detached, otherwise internally nice and clean. (8), 40 pp. + 1 plate. 

Rare first edition of this early Danish anatomical treatise, describing four ox ribs in which the overlying flesh had ossified into real bone - a pathological condition of heterotopic ossification.

Order-nr.: 62723