Author: HARVEY, W.
Title: Prelectiones anatomiae universalis by William Harvey. Edited with an autotype reproduction of the original [manuscript] by a committee of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Description: London, J.& A. Churchill, 11 New Burlington Street, 1886. 4to. W. an integral autotype facs. of the original manuscript pages. Recent hlf. mor. rebacking of spine, well executed in matching style and colour. Original covers and corners preserved. New marbled endp. [A-Z4, 2A-2B4, 2C2]. (X, 98 [accompanying textpages] pp.). (Uncut; top edge gilt.). A very good copy printed in a limited edition of 300 copies. G&M 758: "Facsimile reproduction with transliteration of Harvey's [Latin]manuscript notes for a Lumleian Lecture, 1616. These show that at that date Harvey had already completed his demonstration of the circulation of the blood': Heirs of Hippocrates, item 280: Keynes, 49: Note: 'It is recorded in the Minutes of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, 9 December 1886, that 300 copies were printed, of which the Royal College took 100 at the subscription price of two guineas.':

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