HARVEY, WILLIAM. 1578-1657.


De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus anatomica exercitatio, cui postremam hac editione accesserunt Johannis Walaei epistolae duae. Padua: Sebastian Sardum 1643. 12mo (164 x 93 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, 2 engraved folding plates. Contemporary Italian limp boards, uncut. Some minor browning and staining, marginal paper flaw to I6 and I7. Second authorized edition of Harvey's discovery and experimental proof of the circulation of blood. This is the second printing of Harvey's complete text without refutations interspersed. Harvey was not responsible for the 1639 edition and his text is split up into dozens of paragraphs interspersed with refutations by Parisanus. This 1643 edition includes additional material of interest. Walaeus's letters were first published in 1641 in Thomas Bartholin's Institutiones Anatomicae. This is the second appearance of these important letters that report Walaeus's classic experiments. A remarkable survival, this is an untrimmed copy in a contemporary binding. Heirs of Hippocrates 418; Keynes 4; Russell 353; Waller 4090.