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HARVEY, William (1578-1657)
The Anatomical Exercises ... Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of Zachariah Wood ... to Which is Added, Dr. James de Back, his Discourse of the Heart. London: Richard Lowndes and Matthew Gilliflower, 1673.
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HARVEY, William (1578-1657)
The Anatomical Exercises ... Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of Zachariah Wood ... to Which is Added, Dr. James de Back, his Discourse of the Heart. London: Richard Lowndes and Matthew Gilliflower, 1673.
Second edition in English of Harvey’s ground-breaking announcement of his discovery of the circulation of blood. After its first publication in Latin in 1628, De motu cordis appeared in numerous Latin editions and commentaries for an international, scholarly readership; its first vernacular publication (in Dutch) appeared in 1650, followed by an English edition in 1653. The present second English edition reprints that anonymous translation, which Keynes described as ‘a vigorous, if unpolished, version... in contemporary language’. Starting in 1648, Harvey’s text was joined by a preface by Zachariah Wood and a treatise on blood by Dutch physician James de Back.
A previous owner of this volume, George Harris, was a barrister, judge, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of whom a contemporary commented that he was ‘better described as a polymath and autodidact than an antiquary’. His interests ranged from legal biography to psychical and anthropological research, and he was an original proponent of what became the Historical Manuscripts Commission. Another of his books (Descartes, Compendium of Musick) survives at the Folger Library. Wing H1084; Keynes 20; Wellcome III, p.219; Waller 4106.
Octavo (167 x 106mm). Ornamental initials, type-ornament headpieces (small marginal hole in title, occasional small spot, ?lifted type piece imprinted on Q3v). Contemporary blind-ruled calf, red-brown edges (19th-century endpapers and discreet repairs, boards detached). Provenance: George Harris, Middle Temple, 1854 (1809-90; barrister and judge, FSA; title inscription) – Royal Medical Society (ink stamps [Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society]).
The Anatomical Exercises ... Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of Zachariah Wood ... to Which is Added, Dr. James de Back, his Discourse of the Heart. London: Richard Lowndes and Matthew Gilliflower, 1673.
Second edition in English of Harvey’s ground-breaking announcement of his discovery of the circulation of blood. After its first publication in Latin in 1628, De motu cordis appeared in numerous Latin editions and commentaries for an international, scholarly readership; its first vernacular publication (in Dutch) appeared in 1650, followed by an English edition in 1653. The present second English edition reprints that anonymous translation, which Keynes described as ‘a vigorous, if unpolished, version... in contemporary language’. Starting in 1648, Harvey’s text was joined by a preface by Zachariah Wood and a treatise on blood by Dutch physician James de Back.
A previous owner of this volume, George Harris, was a barrister, judge, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of whom a contemporary commented that he was ‘better described as a polymath and autodidact than an antiquary’. His interests ranged from legal biography to psychical and anthropological research, and he was an original proponent of what became the Historical Manuscripts Commission. Another of his books (Descartes, Compendium of Musick) survives at the Folger Library. Wing H1084; Keynes 20; Wellcome III, p.219; Waller 4106.
Octavo (167 x 106mm). Ornamental initials, type-ornament headpieces (small marginal hole in title, occasional small spot, ?lifted type piece imprinted on Q3v). Contemporary blind-ruled calf, red-brown edges (19th-century endpapers and discreet repairs, boards detached). Provenance: George Harris, Middle Temple, 1854 (1809-90; barrister and judge, FSA; title inscription) – Royal Medical Society (ink stamps [Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society]).
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