Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
Exercitationes anatomicae, de motu cordus & sanguinis circulatione . . . accessit dissertatio de corde Doct. Jacobi de Back [with Exercitationes duae de circulatione sanguinis]. 2 full-page engraved illustrations. [32], 285, [19]; [2], 252, [24] pages, including engraved additional title. 2 parts in one volume. 12mo, modern panelled calf; additional title soiled and mounted, stamp of the British Medical Library Association on letterpress title (released). Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1654

Additional Details

Eighth edition, and first to include Harvey's only published response to his critics, in the form of 2 essays addressed to his principal detractor, the Paris anatomist Jean Riolan the Younger (see lot 294), which first appeared separately in 1649. Heirs of Hippocrates 423; Keynes 8; Krivatsy 5333.