RIVIERE, LAZARE. 1589-1655.


Opera medica universa quibus continentur . . . editio ultima auctior et correctior. Frankfurt: Johann Peter Zubrodt 1669. 3 parts in one volume. Folio. (346 x 207 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over paste-boards. Some light browning and staining. SECOND EDITION and first Frankfurt edition. The dedication leaf is dated August 1668. Garrison-Morton 2727 (cites same city and printer, but gives the date as 1674); Krivatsy 9691; Wellcome IV, p 535.WITH: Institutiones medicae, in quinque libros distinctae.... Lyon: Antoine Cellier, 1656. BOUND WITH: Observationum medicarum, & Curationum insignium Centuriae tres.... Lyon: Antoine Cellier, 1659.2 works in 1 volume. 4to (214 x 151 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, title pages in red and black with engraved vignette, 5 folding tables in first work. 18th century speckled sheep, spine gilt in 6 panels. Rubbed, cancelled ownership inscriptions on first title page, browning.Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (bookplate).Krivatsy 9702 and 9718; Norman 1836 and 1837."Riverius was the first to note aortic stenosis" (Garrison-Morton). More than anyone else, Riverius was responsible for encouraging the French to accept Harvey's theory of the circulation. Lazare Riviere was physician to the King of France and professor of medicine at Montpellier.