HALES, STEPHEN. Vegetable Staticks: or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables, 1727; Statical Essays: containing Haemastaticks; or an Account of some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experiments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals, 1733. Both London, together 2 vols. 8vo, 195 x 115mm. (7 5/8 x 4 1/2in.), contemporary panelled calf (almost uniform), rebacked, corners repaired. FIRST EDITIONS, 19 engraved plates in the first work. Dibner Heralds of Science 26 (first work); Garrison and Morton 765 (second work); Grolier/Horblit 45a and b; Henrey III. 777 (first work). PMM 189. A collected set of first editions: Vegetable Staticks (i.e. the first work) was re-titled Statical Essays...Vol. 1 for its second edition, published in 1731. The first edition of Haemastaticks (i.e. the second work) is Vol. II of Statical Essays . The first work contains the "first complete account of the physiology of plants, including the reaction with air and movement of the sap"--Grolier/Horblit. "The second volume contains the studies on blood pressure which make Hales one of the founders of modern experimental physiology"-- Printing and the Mind of Man. Provenance : Harrison D. Horblit, bookplates. (2)
HALES, STEPHEN. Vegetable Staticks: or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables, 1727; Statical Essays: containing Haemastaticks; or an Account of some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experiments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals, 1733. Both London, together 2 vols. 8vo, 195 x 115mm. (7 5/8 x 4 1/2in.), contemporary panelled calf (almost uniform), rebacked, corners repaired. FIRST EDITIONS, 19 engraved plates in the first work. Dibner Heralds of Science 26 (first work); Garrison and Morton 765 (second work); Grolier/Horblit 45a and b; Henrey III. 777 (first work). PMM 189. A collected set of first editions: Vegetable Staticks (i.e. the first work) was re-titled Statical Essays...Vol. 1 for its second edition, published in 1731. The first edition of Haemastaticks (i.e. the second work) is Vol. II of Statical Essays . The first work contains the "first complete account of the physiology of plants, including the reaction with air and movement of the sap"--Grolier/Horblit. "The second volume contains the studies on blood pressure which make Hales one of the founders of modern experimental physiology"-- Printing and the Mind of Man. Provenance : Harrison D. Horblit, bookplates. (2)
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