pdf - Roger Gaskell Rare Books

168 x 103mm.
Binding: Contemporary blind­ruled calf, rebacked. Corners worn.
First edition. The Thomason copy is annotated ‘Feb.’. Wing L3245, 6;
ESTC R30507; Madan III, 2562, 2561; Wellcome III, p. 552; Krivatsy
7150; Ward and Carozzi 1401; Neville II, p. 92.
In this encyclopedic work in two parts, on animals and on minerals,
Lovell completes his trilogy begun with his work on the plant kingdom,
Pambotanologia (1659). It ‘contains much of chemical, metallurgical, and
mineralogical interest’ (Neville).
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LOWER, Richard (1631–1691)
Tractatus de corde. Item De motu & colore sanguinis, et chyli in
eum transitu.
Amsterdam: apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1669.
8vo: 8
* A–O8 P4 , 124 leaves, pp. [16] 132 (sigs N and O transposed in
this copy). Woodcut device on title.
7 engraved plates: numbered Tab. 1–7 (bound as throwouts at the end).
154 x92mm. Fore edges of several plates shaved.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards, green sprinkled edges. Front
free endleaf removed.
Provenance: Walter Pagel’s signature, undated, on pastedown.
First Amsterdam edition (Wrst edition, London 1669). Fulton says this
was published ‘a few months after’ the London edition. Willems 1412;
Fulton, Lower and Mayow 6; Wellcome III, p. 552; Krivatsy 7158.
One of the great classics of medical literature, the Wrst major advance on
cardiac physiology since Harvey. Lower was the Wrst to demonstrate the
scroll­like structure of the cardiac muscle; he was the Wrst to transfuse blood;
and he observed that the bright red colour of arterial blood was due to the
absorption of air in the lungs.
This is the Amsterdam reprint which followed closely on the London
edition dated 1669, but possibly issued in 1668.
For the Wrst edition see Garrison–Morton 761; Printing and the Mind of Man 149;
LeFanu, Notable Medical Books in the Lilly Library p. 87.
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MACH, Ernst (1838–1916)
Zwei populäre Vorlesungen über musikalische Akustik.
Gräz: Leuschner & Lubensky, 1865.
8vo, pp. 21 [1]. Line diagrams and musical examples in the text.
233 x 152mm.
Binding: Original printed wrappers. Margins chipped and discoloured.
Provenance: Walter Pagel’s signature, undated, on pastedown.