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HARVEY, William.

Opera. Sive exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus. Atque exercitationes duae anatomicae de circulatione sanguinis ad Joannem Riolanum filium. Tumque exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus praefationem addidit Bernardus Siegfried Albinus. . . Editio novissima indicibus ornata.

Leyden: Jan van Kerckhem, 1737.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002327

2 volumes in one. 4to (193 x 152 mm), [16], 170; [24], 404, [38] pp.; separate title-page to each part printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, general half-title bound at beginning, separate half-title to second part, 2 engraved plates to first part bound between pp.88 and 89. Late 19th-century red calf, spine titled and decorated in gilt (slight rubbing to hinges and corners), red-marbled endpapers and cut edges. Text only little browned, slight marginal foxing, first title-page with two old library stamps, a few old ink annotations. Provenance: Dr. Crawford W. Adams (ex-libris to front pastedown). Nice copy. -----

Keynes 46; Wellcome II, 220; NLM/Blake, p.199. - The rare first collected edition in Latin, edited by Bernard Siegfried Albinus. "Harvey's works in Latin have only twice been printed in a collected form, first by van Kerckhem 1777". Both works in Latin have previously only be printed as part of the Bibliotheca anatomica by Le Clerc and Manget in 1685 and 1699, respectively. Part 1 of "de motu cordis" was separately printed by van Kerckhem in 1736 already (see Keynes 14). For the present collected edition only a single half folio sheet with title and half title was re-printed and the old title replaced.

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