Bidloo Brief Aan Antony Leeuwenhoek by Leeuwenhoek Van (1 results)

Delft, by Hendrik van Kroonevelt, 1698. 4to (187 x 150mm). pp. (2), 34, with 1 engraved plate and 3 engravings in the text. Letter of G. Bidloo to Antony van Leeuwenhoek; concerning the animals, which are sometimes found in the liver of sheep and other beasts. According to Dobell (pages 220 & 400) "'The Dutch edition is extremely rare'. Fasciola hepatica - the worm itself - was well known to Leeuwenhoek; for the Dutch anatomist Bidloo (1649-1713) dedicated a little memoir to him, in 1698, in which it was described and figured. At a later date, Leeuwenhoek himself wrote a letter to the Royal Society on the 'Worms observ'd in Sheep Livers'- of which an English abstract was published in 'Phil. Trans' (1704)". Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright. He was the personal physician of William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch stadholder and King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Bidloo was also a prolific and popular poet, opera librettist, and playwright. He wrote the libretto for the first-ever Dutch opera, Ceres, Venus en Bacchus (1686) by Johan Schenck.B.M. (Nat. Hist.) I, p. 161.