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Theoria generationis / Auctore D. Casparo Friderico Wolff.

Anatomical exercitations, concerning the generation of living creatures: to which are added particular discourses, of births, and of conceptions, etc / By William Harvey.

A fugitive sheet of a seated female figure, her hand resting on a vase, with her thorax and abdomen dissected to reveal the ribs, vertebral column and pelvis. Photograph after a woodcut, 1611.

The history of generation. Examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his Discourse of bodies ... To which is joyned a Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy ... especially by ... Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / By Nath. Highmore.

A female flap anatomy fugitive sheet, with layered flaps lifted to reveal the anatomy of the thorax and abdomen. Photograph of an engraving, 1683.

Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables / Translated from the Italian of the Abbé Spallanzani.

Aristotle's compleat master-piece. In three parts : Displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man, regularly digested into chapters and sections ... To which is added A treasure of health; or, the family physician ... / [Aristotle].

An account of some new microscopical discoveries founded on an examination of the calamary and its ... milt-vessels ... Also, observations on the farina faecundans of plants ... And an examination o the pistil, uterus and stamina of several flowers ... Likewise observations on the supposed embryo sole-fish fixed to the bodies of shrimps ... A description of the eels or worms in blighted wheat, etc / [John Turberville Needham].

A seated female figure with a dissected abdomen. Photograph after a woodcut, ca. 1525-1530.

Cosmopolitæ historia naturalis : comprehendens humani corporis atomiam & anatomicam delineationem, ab ipsis primis fœtus rudimentis in utero, usque ad perfectum & adultum statum, lumine præclaro generationem hominis & efformationem exhibens.

Comparative biology of reproduction in mammals : the proceedings of an international symposium / edited by I.W. Rowlands.

Immunology of human reproduction / edited by James S. Scott and Warren R. Jones.

A child against all odds / Robert Winston.

L'oeuf humain : implantation et gestation, trophoderme et placenta / par A.-C.-F. Eternod.

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Cosmopolitæ historia naturalis : comprehendens humani corporis atomiam & anatomicam delineationem, ab ipsis primis fœtus rudimentis in utero, usque ad perfectum & adultum statum, lumine præclaro generationem hominis & efformationem exhibens.

Comparative biology of reproduction in mammals : the proceedings of an international symposium / edited by I.W. Rowlands.

Immunology of human reproduction / edited by James S. Scott and Warren R. Jones.

A child against all odds / Robert Winston.

L'oeuf humain : implantation et gestation, trophoderme et placenta / par A.-C.-F. Eternod.