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Auction archive: Lot number 28

HARVEY, William (1578-1657). Exercitationes duae anatomicae de circulatione sanguinis . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1649. 12 (118 x 67mm). (Some light browning, worming at upper right-hand margin of E6-7 causing only slight loss to the first lines of te...

Auction 20.10.1999
20 Oct 1999
Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$9,945 - US$13,261
Price realised:
£6,900
ca. US$11,437
Auction archive: Lot number 28

HARVEY, William (1578-1657). Exercitationes duae anatomicae de circulatione sanguinis . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1649. 12 (118 x 67mm). (Some light browning, worming at upper right-hand margin of E6-7 causing only slight loss to the first lines of te...

Auction 20.10.1999
20 Oct 1999
Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$9,945 - US$13,261
Price realised:
£6,900
ca. US$11,437
Beschreibung:

HARVEY, William (1578-1657). Exercitationes duae anatomicae de circulatione sanguinis . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1649. 12 (118 x 67mm). (Some light browning, worming at upper right-hand margin of E6-7 causing only slight loss to the first lines of text on recto and verso of both leaves but leaving a sizeable hole in the blank margin itself.) [ Bound with :] William HARVEY Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis & sanguinis -- Zacharias SYLVIUS (1508-1664). Praefatio -- Jacobus de BACK (1593-1658). Dissertatio de corde . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1648. 12. Engraved title and 2 facing full-page illustrations also engraved. (Quire B heavily browned, X1 and X2 in reverse order. Contemporary vellum over thin pasteboard (upper cover stained), modern red cloth box backed in red morocco with gilt-lettered spine. Provenance : Haskell F. Norman (bookplate, sale Christie's New York, Part II, 15 and 16 June 1998, lot 503). POSSIBLE FIRST EDITION of 'one of [Harvey's] major contributions to medical science' (Keynes), defending his ground-breaking theory of the circulation of the blood. The two essays Exercitationes duae anatomicae de circulatione sanguinis were Harvey's response to a rival theory of circulation by the harshly critical Parisian anatomist Jean Riolan (1580-1657), whose Opuscula anatomica nova had appeared with a London imprint earlier in 1649. Having remained silent for twenty-one years in the face of the French physician's persistent criticisms, Harvey here refutes Riolan's notion that the chief circulation was through the septem of the heart, and his belief in partial circulation through the lungs. A brilliant riposte, fully substantiating the ideas of De motu cordis , the Exercitationes duae were published in two editions in 1649, the present Rotterdam edition and a Cambridge edition by Roger Daniels (Wing H-1087); Keynes does not establish priority. Apart from a Paris edition of 1650, the work was otherwise added as an appendix to editions of De motu cordis . It is joined here by the seventh edition of De motu cordis , the first of four published by Arnold Leers. It includes James de Back's defence of Harvey, written in 1647. Keynes Harvey 32 & 7; NLM/Krivatsy 5340 & 5332; Norman 1010 & 1007; Waller 4116 & 4091; PMM 127 ( De motu cordis , 1628 ed.).

Auction archive: Lot number 28
Auction:
Datum:
20 Oct 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

HARVEY, William (1578-1657). Exercitationes duae anatomicae de circulatione sanguinis . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1649. 12 (118 x 67mm). (Some light browning, worming at upper right-hand margin of E6-7 causing only slight loss to the first lines of text on recto and verso of both leaves but leaving a sizeable hole in the blank margin itself.) [ Bound with :] William HARVEY Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis & sanguinis -- Zacharias SYLVIUS (1508-1664). Praefatio -- Jacobus de BACK (1593-1658). Dissertatio de corde . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1648. 12. Engraved title and 2 facing full-page illustrations also engraved. (Quire B heavily browned, X1 and X2 in reverse order. Contemporary vellum over thin pasteboard (upper cover stained), modern red cloth box backed in red morocco with gilt-lettered spine. Provenance : Haskell F. Norman (bookplate, sale Christie's New York, Part II, 15 and 16 June 1998, lot 503). POSSIBLE FIRST EDITION of 'one of [Harvey's] major contributions to medical science' (Keynes), defending his ground-breaking theory of the circulation of the blood. The two essays Exercitationes duae anatomicae de circulatione sanguinis were Harvey's response to a rival theory of circulation by the harshly critical Parisian anatomist Jean Riolan (1580-1657), whose Opuscula anatomica nova had appeared with a London imprint earlier in 1649. Having remained silent for twenty-one years in the face of the French physician's persistent criticisms, Harvey here refutes Riolan's notion that the chief circulation was through the septem of the heart, and his belief in partial circulation through the lungs. A brilliant riposte, fully substantiating the ideas of De motu cordis , the Exercitationes duae were published in two editions in 1649, the present Rotterdam edition and a Cambridge edition by Roger Daniels (Wing H-1087); Keynes does not establish priority. Apart from a Paris edition of 1650, the work was otherwise added as an appendix to editions of De motu cordis . It is joined here by the seventh edition of De motu cordis , the first of four published by Arnold Leers. It includes James de Back's defence of Harvey, written in 1647. Keynes Harvey 32 & 7; NLM/Krivatsy 5340 & 5332; Norman 1010 & 1007; Waller 4116 & 4091; PMM 127 ( De motu cordis , 1628 ed.).

Auction archive: Lot number 28
Auction:
Datum:
20 Oct 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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