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HALES, STEPHEN. Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables (--... Haemastaticks; or, an Account of some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experiments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals.). London: for W. Innys 1731-1733.
2 vols., 8vo, 196 x 119mm. (8 3/4 x 4 11/16in.), contemporary calf, covers slightly rubbed, vol. 1 slightly browned, tiny hole in I8 of vol. 1, modern brown quarter morocco box by the Heritage Bindery.
First edition under this title, comprising the second edition of vol. 1 of Vegetable Staticks (now re-titled Statical Essays) and the FIRST EDITION of vol. 2, Haemastaticks, 19 engraved plates in vol. 1.
Garrison and Morton 765 (vol. 2); Grolier/Horblit 45b (vol. 2); Norman 970 (first edition of vol. 1); PMM 189.
The first volume 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 physiology."--Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: Richard W. Holton, 1907 -- V.F. Digby 1939, Mayoress of Kingston-on-Thames 1946, ink inscriptions on blank fly-leaf. (2)
2 vols., 8vo, 196 x 119mm. (8 3/4 x 4 11/16in.), contemporary calf, covers slightly rubbed, vol. 1 slightly browned, tiny hole in I8 of vol. 1, modern brown quarter morocco box by the Heritage Bindery.
First edition under this title, comprising the second edition of vol. 1 of Vegetable Staticks (now re-titled Statical Essays) and the FIRST EDITION of vol. 2, Haemastaticks, 19 engraved plates in vol. 1.
Garrison and Morton 765 (vol. 2); Grolier/Horblit 45b (vol. 2); Norman 970 (first edition of vol. 1); PMM 189.
The first volume 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 physiology."--Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: Richard W. Holton, 1907 -- V.F. Digby 1939, Mayoress of Kingston-on-Thames 1946, ink inscriptions on blank fly-leaf. (2)