Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 518
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
GLISSON, FRANCIS. Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis. Cui praemittitur alius, de partibus continentibus in genere; & in specie de iis abdominis. 3 engraved plates. [34], 591 pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait. 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked with morocco, endpapers renewed; institutional release stamp on title verso. Amsterdam; Jacobus Junior, 1677

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First published the same year in London, " . . . this important work on the stomach and intestines contains Glisson's original concept of 'irritability' not only as the prime cause of muscular contraction but as a property of all human tissues"--Heirs of Hippocrates 475 (1691 edition). Garrison-Morton 579 (original edition); Krivatsy 4829.