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Lederle Laboratories, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Facsimile Reprint Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth, lettered in gold foil. [ii],[40],111 pp., illus. w/ 2 engraved plates. Spine panel lightly sunned, with minor soiling along top rear edge, otherwise nearly as issued. Facsimile reprint of the original 1653 edition printed in London by Francis Leach for Richard Lowndes, a copy in the Yale University Medical History Library. Half-title states that this edition contains "excerpts," but the pagination is continuous and appears to contain the entirety of Wood's preface and Harvey's treatise..

Lederle Laboratories. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. Includes protective paper cover printed for this edition; Classics in Medical Literature .

[London].: [Francis Leach] Lederle Laboratories., [1653] 1987.. Facsimile edition.. Hard cover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). . Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

United States: The Classics Of Medicine Library / Gryphon Editions, 1978. Full brown leather, gilt tooling and page edges, marbled endpapers, in bright condition, text clean, a facsimile of the original Latin edition with an accompanying English translation, a facsimile of the 1628 edition, privately printed for the members of The Classics Of Medicine Library . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: For Richard Lowndes and Matthew Gilliflower, 1673. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Three parts in one volume. 8vo (167 x 105 mm). [24], 107, [21], 16, 13-172 pp. Signatures: a4 A-U8, (U3, U4 misprinted T3, T4). De Back's treatise has a separate title-page. With lengthy eighteenth-century annotations concerning Harvey to both endpapers. Contemporary calf, spine expertly rebacked and with some gilt ruling and gilt-lettered label (boards slightly scratched and rubbed). Text little evenly browned, occasional minor spotting, small worm track to lower blank margin, a bit short at upper margin. Provenance: illegible signature, Trinity College Cambridge (inscribed on first free endpaper), also lettered "Lower" on fore-edge. A very good and clean copy. ---- Wing H1084; Keynes 20; Wellcome III, p.219; Waller 4106. The second English edition of Harvey's celebrated De motu cordis in which he sets forth his discovery and experimental proof of the… Read More

London: Printed by Francis Leach, 1653. First edition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF DE MOTU CORDIS. First edition in English of De motu cordis (1628), in which was described the discovery and proof of the circulation of the blood; this is the very rare first issue with uncancelled title and this leaf unclipped by the printer (see below). Harvey's discovery and experimental proof of the circulation of the blood created a revolution in physiology comparable to the Copernican revolution in astronomy: it was to become "the cornerstone of modern physiology and medicine" (Garrison-Morton). De motu cordis "is probably the most important book in the history of medicine. What Vesalius was to anatomy, Harvey was to physiology; the whole scientific outlook on the human body was transformed, and behind almost every important medical advance in modern times lies the work of Harvey" (Heirs of Hippocrates). It should also be regarded as "the first record of a complete biological investigation, giving a clear and… Read More