pdf - Roger Gaskell Rare Books

Binding: Contemporary calf, gilt ruled sides with corner ornaments,
gilt ornaments in spine compartments, marbled paper pastedowns,
marbled page edges. Head of spine wormed, lower joint starting to
split but sound, remains of one free endleaf at the front, the other
missing, two free endleaves at the back.
Provenance: A presentation copy with the words ‘Ex dono authori[s]’
on the free endleaf, but three­quarters of the leaf has been torn away
(and restored) so that the recipients name is missing.
First complete edition: ‘De respirartione’ and ‘De rachitide’ were Wrst
published as Tractatus duo in 1669. Reprinted at the Hague in 1681;
English translation, 1907. Wing M1537; ESTC R10053; Madan,
III, 3015; Fulton, Two Oxford Physiologists... Lower and Mayow 108;
Wellcome IV, p. 93; Krivatsy 7653; Garrison–Morton 578.
‘Mayow was the Wrst to locate the seat of animal heat in the muscles; he
discovered the double articulation of the ribs with the spine and came near
to discovering oxygen in his suggestion that the object of breathing was to
abstract from the air a deWnite group of life­giving “particles”. He was the Wrst
to make the deWnite suggestion that it is only a special fraction of the air that
is of use in respiration. His Tractatus, embodying all his brilliant conclusions,
is one of the best English medical classics.’ (Garrison–Morton.)
A Wne presentation copy from the author, though frustratingly we don’t
know who the recipient was.
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MAYOW, John (1641–1679)
Alle de medicinale en natuurkundige werken... Bestaande in vijf
Verhandelinge... uit het Latyn vertaalt, en met noodige aanmerkingen
verrijkt door S. B.
Amsterdam: by Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1684.
8vo: 4
* A–2P8 2Q4 ; 312 leaves, pp. [8] 592 [24]. Title in red and
black, woodcut initials.
8 engraved plates: portrait and plates numbered Tab. 1–7 (portrait
after prelims, plates at pp. 260, 330, 400, 566, 211 and 229).
159 x 95mm. paper Xaw in the margin of D2 with loss of a few letters
from the shoulder note.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards, green sprinkled edges.
Provenance: Walter Pagel’s signature, undated, on pastedown.
First Dutch edition of Tractatus Quinque. Another state of the titlepage is
dated 1683. Fulton, Two Oxford Physiologists... Lower and Mayow 113.
The translator and annotator, ‘S. B.’ on the titlepage, is identiWed in the
printer’s address to the reader as Steven Blankaart (1650–1702). As well as his
annotations, Blankaart has added summaries of Mayow’s works at the end.
Blankaart is best known for his Lexicon medicum renovatum; he also translated
Willis, Sanctorius and other medical writers into Dutch.