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HARVEY, WILLIAM. Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis & sanguinis. 2 full-page engraved illustrations. [40], 215, [5], 219, [8] pages, including engraved additional title; [chi]² folded backward, with title of the second part preceding errata leaf of the first. 2 parts in one volume. 12mo, 119x58 mm, contemporary calf; contents generally clean. Macclesfield shelf mark on front free endpaper, and embossed stamp on titles and first leaf of preface. Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1648
Seventh edition of of Harvey's epochal work on his discovery and experimental proof of the circulation of the blood. "By fundamentally changing our conceptions of the functions of the heart and blood vessels, Harvey pointed the way to reform of all of physiology and medicine"--Garrison-Morton 759 (1628 original edition). Keynes (1953) 7; Krivatsy 5332; Norman 1007 (this edition).
