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157 x 99mm. Waterstains at the beginning of the book; light browning
throughout; worm tracks in leaves 2F5–2L6 with loss of several letters.
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum, yapp fore edges, evidence of
ties. Soiled.
Provenance: Early signature ‘Josephus Anthoine’ on rear free endleaf.
Second edition (Wrst as Artis medicae, Rome 1603). This edition was
reissued at Frankfurt in 1670, after another edition, as Praxis universae
artis medicae had been printed at Treviso in 1606. Krivatsy 2343.
Cesalpino’s work on practical medicine including his observations on the
heart and chest, syphilis, diseases of the head and gynaecology.
Cesalpino mentions the circulation of the blood, dealt with at greater
length in his Peripateticarum quaestionum (1571). Although Cesalpino did not
in fact envisage a full circulation, rather a Xow of blood to and from the heart,
Pagel regarded him as probably the most important forerunner of Harvey.
On the endleaf of this copy Pagel has noted ‘p. 473 account of circulation’
and in William Harvey’s Biological ideas he writes, ‘It is in the same work [the
present work] that we Wnd Cesalpinus’ basic statement that the blood moves
continually from the veins into the heart and from the arteries out of it.
Indeed it is given here in its most generalised form.’ (p. 179, citing p. 473 in
this edition; for Pagel’s copy of the second edition of the Quaestionum, 1593,
see my Catalogue 41 no. 27).
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CHARLETON, Walter (1619­1707)
Natural history of [brace] nutrition, life, and voluntary motion
[end of bracketed section]. Containing all the new discoveries of
anatomist’s and most probable opinions of physicians, concerning the
oeconomie of human nature; methodically delivered in exercitations
physico­anatomical.
London: printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at
the Anchor in the lower walk in the New Exchange, 1659.
4to: A 4 a 4 B–2F 4 , 120 leaves, pp. [16] 210, (i.e. 208, 184–5 omitted)
[16]. Woodcut headpieces and initials, 5 engraved diagrams printed
on pp. 198–201 and 206 and a small anatomical illustration on 207. In
the Folger Library copy 2E1, a translation from Galen with errata on
verso, is bound after a4 as seems to have been intended.
179 x 130mm. Worm holes and tracks throughout, the worst
strengthened with tissue, mostly conWned to the inner margins (which
are also stained) but a few straying into the text and touching several
letters; waterstains in outer margins of prelims; some dustsoiling.
Binding: Recent quarter morocco, two original front free endleaves
retained.
Provenance: Early price notes, ‘2s. 8d’ and ‘pt. 1s. 6d’ on endleaves,
strip of paper pasted to fore edge of title with partly cropped
inscription ‘Manwaring [undeciphered]’. Walter Pagel’s signature,
undated, on pastedown.