pdf - Roger Gaskell Rare Books

London: printed for Richard Lowndes at the White Lion in Duck Lane,
and Math. GilliXower, at the Sun in Westminster-Hall, 1673.
8vo: a4 A–u8 , 164 leaves, pp. [24] 107 [21] 16 13–172.
168 x 105mm. Titlepage soiled and repaired in the inner margin, inner
margins of following preliminary leaves also slightly damaged and
some waterstaining towards the inner margin in the Wrst third of the
book; light marginal foxing.
Binding: Contemporary panelled calf, red edges, old clumsy reback,
repairs to corners, now very worn and frayed.
Provenance: Signature ‘George Shaw 1823’ on title. 17 words of
annotation in a contemporary hand.
Second edition in English (Wrst English 1653), translations of Harvey,
De motu cordis and De circulatione sanguinis and Jacobus de Back,
Dissertatio de corde. Keynes 20; Wing H1084; ESTC R15020.
The English translation is based on the Rotterdam editions of 1648 and
1649, (no. 81 above), revised by Zacharias Sylvius (1608?–1664) and Jacobus
de Back (1593–1658). It includes the preface by Sylvius. Although Wrst
published in Harvey’s lifetime, he probably had no hand in preparing the
English text. ‘It gives a vigorous, if unpolished, rendering of Harvey’s book
in contemporary language’ (Keynes, Bibliography, p. 27). Only one other
edition of this text has been printed, the Nonesuch press edition of 1928.
The other English editions are modernised versions of the 1653 text or are
new translations.
The two English editions (1653 and 1673) omit the illustrations, although
they are still referred to in the text.
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HARVEY, William (1578–1657)
Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt
quaedam De partu; De Membranis ac humoribus uteri: & De
conceptione.
London: typis Du-Gardianis; impensis Octaviani Pulleyn in Coemeterio
Paulino, 1651.
4to: p 4 (–p1 blank) a 4 B–2S 4 (blank 2S4), 167 of 168 leaves, pp. [28]
301 [3] (errata on 2S3v, last 2 pages blank). p2, etched title; p3,
printed title with woodcut device; woodcut headpieces and initials. p2,
the etched titlepage, is here bound as a recto and the stub of the blank
p1 is between p3 and p4.
220 x 155mm. Worm holes and tracks in the lower margins, just
touching the lower rule border of the etched titlepage. Text browned
but the etched titlepage clean and a good impression.
Binding: Contemporary sheep, gilt ruled sides and spine. Head and
tail of spine and joints repaired, corners worn, surface of leather
pitted.