1683 8 p., 3 engraved plates (depicting medical instrument, Chicken eggs with depictions of a serpent, comet etc. in them, human organ with many spherical growths), disbound (no covers). Pages with some worming in left blank margin and two in right blank margin (not affecting the text). Published in: Miscellanea Curiosa sive Ephemeridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum (the first journal on medicine and natural history). Rare.Sebastian Scheffer (1631-1686) was a German physician. Andreas Cleyer (1634-1697) was a German physician, pharmacist, botanist and Japanologist, who worked in Java and Japan for the Dutch East India Company (VOC).