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HALES, STEPHEN. Vegetable Staticks: or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables, 1727; Statical Essays: containing Haemastaticks; or an Account of some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experiments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals, 1733. Both London, together 2 vols. 8vo, 195 x 115mm. (7 5/8 x 4 1/2in.), contemporary panelled calf (almost uniform), rebacked, corners repaired. FIRST EDITIONS, 19 engraved plates in the first work. Dibner Heralds of Science 26 (first work); Garrison and Morton 765 (second work); Grolier/Horblit 45a and b; Henrey III. 777 (first work). PMM 189.

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HALES, STEPHEN. Vegetable Staticks: or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables, 1727; Statical Essays: containing Haemastaticks; or an Account of some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experiments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals, 1733. Both London, together 2 vols. 8vo, 195 x 115mm. (7 5/8 x 4 1/2in.), contemporary panelled calf (almost uniform), rebacked, corners repaired. FIRST EDITIONS, 19 engraved plates in the first work. Dibner Heralds of Science 26 (first work); Garrison and Morton 765 (second work); Grolier/Horblit 45a and b; Henrey III. 777 (first work). PMM 189.

A collected set of first editions: Vegetable Staticks (i.e. the first work) was re-titled Statical Essays...Vol. 1 for its second edition, published in 1731. The first edition of Haemastaticks (i.e. the second work) is Vol. II of Statical Essays.

The first work contains the "first complete account of the physiology of plants, including the reaction with air and movement of the sap"--Grolier/Horblit. "The second volume contains the studies on blood pressure which make Hales one of the founders of modern experimental physiology"--Printing and the Mind of Man.

Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit, bookplates. (2)