HARVEY, WILLIAM. 1578-1657.


Recentiorum disceptationes de motu cordi, sanguinis, et chyli, in animalibus. quorum feries post alteram paginam exhibetur. Leiden: J. Maire, 1647. WITH: ASELLI, GASPARE. 1581-1625. De lactibus sive lacteis venis quarto vasorum mesaraicorum genere novo invento ... dissertatio. Leiden: J. Maire, 1640. 5 parts in one volume, 4to (189 x 135 mm). Printer's woodcut device on 3 titles, 6 engraved plates (2 in De moto cordis and 4 in Aselli), three woodcut illustration in text (Walaeus). Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered in second, minor repairs to spine ends. Some minor marginal staining and light worming at end. This volume is the reissue of the 1639 edition (Lot 349) with the preliminary leaves reset, containing a new notice by Maire and with the addition of letters of Walaeus and related works. "It includes reissues of the 1644 edition of Primrose's Antidotum and the 1640 edition of Aselli's De Lactibus" (Keynes). The other works in the second part are by Roger Drake and Henricus Regius. Keynes 6; Krivatsy 5331 and 447 (Aselli).