LYSER, M. — Culter anatomicus. Hoc est: methodis brevis facilis ac perspicua artificiosè & compendiosè humana incidendi cadavera. Cum nonnullorum instrumentorum iconibus. Secunda hac editione ... aucta cum prefatione Th. Bartholini.

Copenhagen, M.Godicchenius, 1665. W. 9 woodcut ills. in the text. Attractive recent half clf., w. red lettering pieces. [...]. (XXXII, 100 [=300], IV (blank) pp.). (some 30 lvs. slightly watersp. left margin.). Hirsch III, 872/3: (Lyser, Michael L. 1626 - 1659). According to Hirsch an excellent anatomist who played a major role in the discovery of the Vasa Lymphatica. Rudbeck at one time even insinuated (in his feud against Bartholinus regarding the priority of the discovery) that Lyser was the actual anatomist who should be credited.: '... eines der besten und eingehendsten anatomischen Handbücher jener Zeit.': Osler, 3290: Krivatsy, 7218: Wellcome III, 565: Parkinson/Lumb, 1523: Comp. Waller I, 6102 (1st ed. 1653): Hagelin, Rare Books, pp. 75 - 79 (Bartholinus and Rudbeck): ' ... in 1651 ... Pecquet reported the revolutionary observations that the venae lacteae do not go to the liver as had previously been thought. Thomas Bartholinus realized the immense importance of these new observations and he and his German student, Michael Lyser, worked hard to establish Pequet's findings.': Not in G&M: Not in Norman coll.: W. a separate titlepage at p. 225 "Observationes medicae, ... Michaelis Lyserii, Henrici a Möinichen, Martini Bogdani, Jacobi Seidelii è musaeo Th. Bartholini. Hafniae, P. Hauboldum, 1665'. The second edition, enlarged by nearly one third, with a preface by Bartholinus. The instruments depicted in woodcut often of Lyser's own invention.