1683 9 p., 2 engraved plates (depicting arteries and an instrument for head surgery including the actual head surgery), disbound (no covers). Pages with worming in left blank margin (not affecting the text). Somewhat browned. Published in: Miscellanea Curiosa sive Ephemeridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum (the first journal on medicine and natural history). Rare.Georg Abraham Mercklin (1613-1683) but probably his son Georg Abraham Mercklin jr. (1644-1700), both were German physicians.