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DESCARTES, Rene |
| Title: |
L'HOMME DE RENE DESCARTES, ET LA FORMATIONE DU FOETUS |
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Avec les Remarques de Louis de la Forge. A quoy l'on a ajoute Le Monde ou Traite de la Lumiere du mesme Autheur. Second Edition, reveue & corrigee. Paris, Theodore Girard. 1677. 4to. pp. (lxiv), 511, (ix - Index). Title with woodcut printer's device; many woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt; ends of spine reinforced. Light waterstain at top of majority of leaves, text clean. |
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* This is the second edition of the French translation of Descartes' De Homine, sometimes called the first book on physiology; in his description of responses to nervous stimuli, he is credited with originating the theory of reflexes. Descartes (1596-1650) was prepared to publish De Homine in 1633 but decided to withhold it when he learned of Galileo's condemnation by the Church; therefore the first (latin) edition was not published until 1662, 12 years after his death -HoH. Krivatsky 3118, Osler 933. £475 |
| Author: |
HALLER, (Albrech von). |
| Title: |
Dr ALBERT HALLER'S PHYSIOLOGY; BEING a COURSE of LECTURES upon the VISCERAL and VITAL OECONOMY of HUMAN BODIES. |
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Two Volumes. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. London, W. Innys and J. Richardson, 1754. Volume 1: pp. viii, lxxxiii, 339; engraved frontis. Volume 2: pp. iv, 468. Both volumes bound in old calf (volume 1 in panelled calf, volume 2 in speckled calf); both rebacked, original label retained in volume 1. Near uniform appearance of bindings. Contains a short Introduction by the editor, Samuel Mihles. Very occasional light spotting in both volumes and covers knocked. Date inserted in old manuscript at foot of title in volume 1. Small paper flaw on Contents leaf with loss of the notation of III. Very occasional marginal comments and underlining in old manuscript. A good set of this scarce item. |
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* Blake, p. 196; Wellcome III, p. 198 (volume 1 only). G&M 585 for the first
edition in latin of 1747 published at Gottingen. Haller (1708-1777) was one of the most imposing figures in the whole of medicine. As a physiologist he was the greatest of his time. Many apparently 'new' discoveries of later times had already been accounted for by Haller.
£510 |
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