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De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitatio. – Johannes WALAEUS (1604-49). Epistolae duae. Padua: Sebastianus Sardus for Dominicus Ricciardi, 1643.
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HARVEY, William (1578-1657)
De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitatio. – Johannes WALAEUS (1604-49). Epistolae duae. Padua: Sebastianus Sardus for Dominicus Ricciardi, 1643.
Third complete edition and the first edition to contain Johannes Walaeus’ letters to Thomas Bartholin corroborating Harvey’s ground-breaking theory of blood circulation. Harvey’s description of how blood is pumped around the body was one of the most significant advances of 17th-century medical science. Walaeus, anatomist at Leiden, was first a sceptic but soon became an ardent proponent of Harvey’s theory, proving it in his own experiments. His letters were first appended to Bartholin’s Institutiones anatomicae (1641). The present copy was owned by Pietro Giuseppe Corradini, physician of Reggio Emilia. He donated his extensive library – and an acquisition fund – to the hospital of St. Maria Nuova there, where part of it remains (cf. Elisabetta Montinari, ‘The “Pietro Giuseppe Corradini Antique Book Collection” of the Library of the Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova of Reggio Emilia’ (www.asmn.re.it/biblioteca)). This copy preserves the two engravings on a single sheet, before it was divided. Heirs of Hippocrates 418; Keynes 4; Russell 353; Waller 4090.
12mo (136 x 72mm). Two engraved plates on one folding sheet, woodcut printer's device on title (lower margin of title cut away, short neat tear in first plate, faint browning, faint occasional spotting). Early vellum, spine lettered in ink, author’s name written along top edges (minor loss at spine ends, becoming detached); modern box. Provenance: Pietro Giuseppe Corradini, 1730 (1707-1782; physician of Reggio Emilia; inscription on title verso) – annotations on Walaeus’s letters referring to Bartholin in an ?18th-century hand – 18-19th-century stamp on title.
De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitatio. – Johannes WALAEUS (1604-49). Epistolae duae. Padua: Sebastianus Sardus for Dominicus Ricciardi, 1643.
Third complete edition and the first edition to contain Johannes Walaeus’ letters to Thomas Bartholin corroborating Harvey’s ground-breaking theory of blood circulation. Harvey’s description of how blood is pumped around the body was one of the most significant advances of 17th-century medical science. Walaeus, anatomist at Leiden, was first a sceptic but soon became an ardent proponent of Harvey’s theory, proving it in his own experiments. His letters were first appended to Bartholin’s Institutiones anatomicae (1641). The present copy was owned by Pietro Giuseppe Corradini, physician of Reggio Emilia. He donated his extensive library – and an acquisition fund – to the hospital of St. Maria Nuova there, where part of it remains (cf. Elisabetta Montinari, ‘The “Pietro Giuseppe Corradini Antique Book Collection” of the Library of the Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova of Reggio Emilia’ (www.asmn.re.it/biblioteca)). This copy preserves the two engravings on a single sheet, before it was divided. Heirs of Hippocrates 418; Keynes 4; Russell 353; Waller 4090.
12mo (136 x 72mm). Two engraved plates on one folding sheet, woodcut printer's device on title (lower margin of title cut away, short neat tear in first plate, faint browning, faint occasional spotting). Early vellum, spine lettered in ink, author’s name written along top edges (minor loss at spine ends, becoming detached); modern box. Provenance: Pietro Giuseppe Corradini, 1730 (1707-1782; physician of Reggio Emilia; inscription on title verso) – annotations on Walaeus’s letters referring to Bartholin in an ?18th-century hand – 18-19th-century stamp on title.
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