HARVEY, WILLIAM. 1578-1657.


Opera omnia: A collegio medicorum Londinensa edita. London: William Bowyer, 1766. 4to (305 x 233 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait and one plate. Half calf. Library bookplate to front cover, stamps to title and to verso of frontispiece, foxing to frontispiece, with dampstain to margin.Provenance: Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurigical Society.WITH: The Works of William Harvey, M.D. Translated from the Latin with a Life of the Author by Robert Willis. London: printed for the Sydenham Society, 1848.8vo (227 x 143 mm). Half morocco. Fye bookplate. First edition.HARVEY'S MAJOR WORKS IN LATIN AND ENGLISH. "Harvey's chief works in Latin have only twice been printed in a collected form, first by van Kerckhem at Leyden in 1737, and secondly by Bowyer for the Royal College of Physicians in 1766. The latter is an imposing volume with a fine engraved portrait" (Keynes Harvey p. 100). The collection was edited by Mark Akenside, with a life of Harvey by Thomas Lawrence. Robert Willis was a Scottish physician who served as librarian of the College of Physicians from 1827 to 1845. After retiring from this position, he translated and wrote a number of medical writings, including William Harvey: a History of the Discovery of the Circulation, in which he included information not published in previous lives of Harvey. Keynes 47. Keynes 48. Garrison-Morton 61.1.