Harvey, William (1578-1657)
Exercitationes Anatomicae de Motu Cordis & Sanguinis Circulatione.

Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1654.

First collected edition of the two texts, 12mo, four leaves from the index misbound with second signature of preliminary leaves (likely printed on the same sheet and not collated correctly by the binder) in the first work; illustrated with added engraved title and two full-paged engravings; bound in contemporary full English calf with gilt rulings; some marginal worming to inner gutter leaves; sewing structure perished, some signatures and leaves working loose, a good candidate for resewing and proper restoration, contemporary ownership inscription of Thomas Greenwood on ffep, 5 x 3 in.

"De Circulatione Sanguinis was first published with De Motu Cordis in 1654 and as the two works have usually been printed together since that date, their bibliographical history largely overlaps. [...] The argument [in De Circulatione] is not as tightly worked out as in De Motu Cordis but weaves around the theme of the movement of the blood in the arteries and veins and its immediate cause and manner. The points discussed are chosen to answer specific criticisms or to refute alternative notions." (Keynes, pages 73-74)

Keynes 8; Krivatsy 15333.; Russell 357.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.