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    Woodcut illustration of a fetal horse attached by umbilical cord to a large complex placenta.
    Copperplate engraved illustration of a newborn human baby lying on its back with umbilical cord attached to large placenta.
    Woodcut illustrations of two fetal horses, the upper horse still in its placenta, the lower one outside placenta but still in fetal position with umbilical cord exposed.
    Printed title page with an image of a griffin and a handwritten inscription.

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    Copperplate engraved illustration of a newborn human baby lying on its back with umbilical cord attached to large placenta.

    De Formato Foetu, 1626

    The plates are the work of Titian's student Odoardo Fialetti (1573–638), and engraver, Francesco Valesio (b. ca. 1560);

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    A title page in Latin decorated with a griffin. There is a handwritten annotation at the bottom.
    De Formato Foetu by Adriaan van Spiegel & Giulio Casseri, 1626
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    Woodcut illustrations of two fetal horses, the upper horse still in its placenta, the lower one outside placenta but still in fetal position with umbilical cord exposed.
    Anatomia del cauallo, infermità, et suoi rimedii, 1681
    Printed title page with an image of a griffin and a handwritten inscription.
    De Formato Foetu, 1626

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