Book ID: 26266

An Anatomical Dissertation Upon the Movement of the Heart…Being a Statement of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood

Harvey, William

Canterbury: Privately Printed for G. Moreton, 1894. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Fair.

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Hardcover, bound in vellum. Facsimile of the first ed. (1628) of Harvey’s ground-breaking discovery in the original Latin (De Motu Cordis), with English translation and prefatory memoir by G. Moreton. x, 74; 91. Two engraved plates; title-page engraving; frontispiece portrait. Ink name on front free endpaper; ex library, with small library stamps; wear to spine head & bottom corners, and hinges started, with partiallty detached prelims; boards slightly bowed (not unusual for vellum); but, apart from a couple of foxed pages, interior is clean & bright, and, despite defects to the vellum, this copy has a really quite presentable appearance. #92/100.

Book ID 26266
Publisher Privately Printed for G. Moreton
Publisher Place Canterbury
Publisher Year 1894
Size 4to
Language English