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HARVEY, WILLIAM. The Anatomical Exercises...concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of Zachariah Wood Physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James De Back his discourse of the Heart. London: Francis Leach for Richard Lowndes 1653. 3 parts in one, 8vo, 152 x 94mm. (6 x 3 3/4in.), modern dark brown morocco in antique style, covers gilt panelled, spine with red morocco label and gilt in compartments, g.e., some very slight worming at front, lower outer portions of some leaves in first part and at end stained, type border on 2v shaved, text just shaved on I2v, a few headlines cut close; quarter red morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of De Motu Cordis, with added material, each part with its own title-page bearing the imprint of F. Leach, title a cancel as usual. Garrison and Morton 759; Heirs of Hippocrates 258; Keynes Harvey 19; Norman 1008; Osler 7968; Waller 4105; Wellcome III, p. 219; Wing H-1083.
"The most important book in the history of medicine" (Garrison and Morton, Frankfurt, Fitzer 1628 edition). Before Harvey's discovery of the blood's circulatory system through the body, it was believed that arteries contained air or spirits and that blood irrigated the tissues by a kind of tidal action.
Provenance: Robert Honeyman IV (sale, Sotheby's London, Part IV, 6 November 1979, lot 1611, now with earlier provenance of T.P. Ackworth and J.C. Williams eradicated).
"The most important book in the history of medicine" (Garrison and Morton, Frankfurt, Fitzer 1628 edition). Before Harvey's discovery of the blood's circulatory system through the body, it was believed that arteries contained air or spirits and that blood irrigated the tissues by a kind of tidal action.
Provenance: Robert Honeyman IV (sale, Sotheby's London, Part IV, 6 November 1979, lot 1611, now with earlier provenance of T.P. Ackworth and J.C. Williams eradicated).