VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND. 1635-1715.


Traite nouveau de la structure et des causes du mouvement naturel du coeur. Toulouse: Jean Guillemette, 1714-1715. WITH: Traite nouveau des liqueurs du corpos humain. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (255 x 195 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 20 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, labeled as volume 1 (of 2). Joints cracking, frontispiece portrait tipped onto a stub, Plates 1-6 of first work misbound and switched with the 6 plates for the second work (but all plates present). Provenance: Logan Clendening (bookplate).FIRST EDITION of the first 2 of 3 parts, bound together, forming a complete work. Vieussens's work on the liquids of the human body, not present here, would have formed part 3. A rare and important early work on cardiology. Vieussens was the first to accurately describe the left ventricle of the heart, and gave his name to a number of anatomical structures of the heart, cardiovascular system, and nervous system. Waller 9965.