LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654-1720). De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus opus postumum, Naples: Felix-Carolus Musca, 1738, 4°, second edition, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 8 folding engraved plates (hole to inner margin of title and a4-b3 with slight loss of text, sporadic worm traces affecting text L2-O1, browned), contemporary sheep-backed boards (rubbed, library stamp on upper cover). [Blake p. 254; Waller 5541; Wellcome III, p. 441; cf. GM 2973 (first edition, 1728): "the first to describe cardiac syphilis"] Provenance: JCL -- Stephen HALES (1677-1761). Haemastatique, ou la statique des animaux, translated by M. de Sauvages, Geneva: Cramer & Philibert, 1744, 4°, one folding woodcut diagram, publisher's advertisement leaf at end (early library stamp on title), contemporary sheep (very rubbed) [Blake p. 194; Wellcome III, p. 194; cf. GM 765 (first English edition, 1733): "first to measure blood pressure"]