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ENT, George (1604–1689)
Opera omnia medico­physica... Nunc primum junctim edita, a
plurimis mendis repurgata, ac indice capitum, rerum et verborum
accuratissimo aucta & ornata.
Leiden: apud Petrum Vander Aa, 1687.
8vo: 8
* (–* 8 A–2S8 , 333 of 334 leaves, pp. [30] 629 [27] (last page
blank). Engraved title by Schoonebeek printed on * 1; lacking the
engraved portrait printed on * 8 (replaced with an impression
of the portrait to Antidiatribe, London, 1679), 2D2 titlepage to
‘Antidiatribe’ dated 1686; woodcut printer’s device on title, small
engraved illustrations on pp. 148 and 150.
160 x 98mm. Very light browning, a good fresh copy.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards, red edges.
First combined edition of Apologia pro circulatione sanguinis (London, 1641,
reprinted 1685) and Antidiatribe (1679). Krivatsy 3664; Wellcome II p. 526.
‘Ent’s Wrst book, Apologia pro circulatione sanguinis (1641), dedicated to Harvey,
counter­attacked the anti­Harveian Emilio Parigiano and emphasized the
importance of experiment. It also contained remarks on respiration that spoke
of the importance of a nitre in air and water, which inspired later work among
English physiologists.’ (Harold J. Cook in ODNB.)
Pagel refers to Ent’s historical discussion of the blood as a ‘source of Wre’,
citing the Apologia, in the present edition, pp. 173 and 185 (Pagel, New Light
on William Harvey, p. 165).
This edition was issued with a slightly reduced and reversed copy, unsigned,
of the portrait of Ent by White in the Antidiatribe (London, 1679) (Renate
Burgess, Portraits of Doctors and Scientists in the Wellcome Institute of the History
of Medicine, 1973, 910). In this copy the White portrait has been pasted in, to
replace the correct portrait which is missing.
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EuLER, Leonhard (1707–1783)
Vernünftige Gedanken von dem Raume dem Orth der Dauer
und der Zeit theils aus dem Französischen des H. Professor Eulers
übersetzt theils aus verschiedenen ungedruckten Briefen dieses
berühmten Manners mitgetheilt.
Quedlingburg: bey Gottfried Heinrich Schwans Wittwe, 1763.
8vo: )( 8 A–O 8 P 4 , 124 leaves, pp. 248.
173 x 105mm. A good fresh copy.
Binding: Contemporary glazed paper boards, red sprinkled edges.
Binding soiled and a little worn.
Provenance: undeciphered inscriptions on endleaves; nineteenthcentury
armorial bookplate ‘Bibliotheca SeckendorWana’.