Author: PECQUET, J.- Vasa Lactea.-
Title: Experimenta nova anatomica, quibus incognitum hactenus chyli receptaculum, & ad eo per thoracem in ramos usque subclavios vasa lactea deteguntur. Eiusdem dissertatio anatomica de circulatione sanguins, & Chyli Motu. Editio Altera. Accedunt clarissimorum virorum perelegantes ad authorem epistolae. B.u.w. 2) [JOHN PECHEY], [Promptuarium Praxeos Medicae] and bookcatalogue van der Plaats?
Description: Amstelaedami, Apud Franciscus vander Plaats, 1700. - 1694. 12mo. 2 parts in 1 vol.W. printed title in red and black, small woodc. vign., w. 1 folding engr. plate (at p. 38) & 5 single page engr. pls. numbered I - V (at pp. 92, 102, 106, 112, 120. Contemp. full overlapping vellum. [*11, A - H12, I6 (E5 signed E4); A12 (minus A1, 2), B12 - M12 (M3 signed F3).]. (XXII, 1 - 204 pp. ; (1-4 missing), 5 - 302, X (Book catalogue van der Plaats) pp.). (All edges red.). (Bookplate 'Biskop Eric Waller's Boksamling' on upper paste down endp.). Rare Amsterdam edition. Not in BMN. The 'Promptuarium' by John Pechey [Krivatsy 8736.1a] without the engr. frontispiece & prelim. lvs. A1 and A2 , (pp. 1-4). At the end a 10 page bookcatalogue of new books in French of the Dutch bookseller van der Plaats? about 1694: Krivatsky, 1761: Ex libris Erik Waller.

Keywords: pre 1700 physiology medicine fysiologie Anatomy thoracic duct Walleriana Brk