Recentiorum disceptationes de motu cordis, sanguinis, et chyli, in animalibus. Quorum series post alteram paginam exhibetur, Leiden: Ioannis Maire, 1647 [part 3 dated 1644], 4°, 3 parts only (of 4) in one volume, 4°, 2 printed titles, each with printer's device, 2 engraved plates, 3 woodcut illustrations, 2 full-page (lacking 4 pages at the end of part I, first title laid down, some margins with laminated repairs, affected by damp, more heavily in the last part causing tears, a few margins wormed, light browning), contemporary vellum (soiled and with old repairs). [Krivatsy 9432; Waller 7788]

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Recentiorum disceptationes de motu cordis, sanguinis, et chyli, in animalibus. Quorum series post alteram paginam exhibetur, Leiden: Ioannis Maire, 1647 [part 3 dated 1644], 4°, 3 parts only (of 4) in one volume, 4°, 2 printed titles, each with printer's device, 2 engraved plates, 3 woodcut illustrations, 2 full-page (lacking 4 pages at the end of part I, first title laid down, some margins with laminated repairs, affected by damp, more heavily in the last part causing tears, a few margins wormed, light browning), contemporary vellum (soiled and with old repairs). [Krivatsy 9432; Waller 7788]

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A collection of works which includes the fourth edition of William Harvey's De motu cordis [separately listed as Krivatsy 5331], part two of which comprises James Primrose's Excercitationes, et animadversiones in librum ... de motu cordis, et circulatione sanguinis [cf. Krivatsy p. 945]. The publication also includes James Primrose's Antidotum adversus Henrici Regii ... venentam spongiam [separately listed as Krivatsy 9278], and Johannes Walaeus Epistolae duae de motu chyli et sanguinis [cf. Krivatsy p. 1250].

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