LOWER, RICHARD. 1631-1691.


Tractatus de corde, item de motu & colore sanguinis.... Amsterdam: Daniel Elsevier, 1671. Small 8vo (159 x 93 mm). 6 folding plates at back. Rebacked, retaining contemporary calf covers, morocco gilt spine label. Rubbed, tear to bottom edge of final blank, folding plates with multiple creases.PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on the front blank leaf "Ex dono Autoris. Januarii vicesimo sexto 1671," in an unknown hand. The most important monograph on the heart following Harvey's discovery of the circulation. This edition is significant because it is based on the second London edition of 1670. "Bibliographically the book is of considerable interest because of the changes in the text and in the illustrations which occurred in the early editions" (Fulton). The plates, though taken from the figures in this 1670 edition, were newly engraved for this edition. Fulton 8; Garrison-Morton 761 (earlier edition); Krivatsy 7159; Russell 543; Wellcome III, p 552.