Author: Geoffrey Keynes
Title: The Portraiture of William Harvey
Description: London, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Keynes's study of the different portraits of the renowned physician William Harvey. The first edition in the publisher's original cloth binding. 32 plates. Collated complete. A copy of the 1948 Thomas Vicary Lecture given by Sir Geoffrey Keynes to the Royal College of Surgeons of England, concerning the portraits of William Harvey (1578-1657). Harvey was a physician who made influential contributions in anatomy and physiology, and was once physician to King James I. This volume contains a catalogue and reproductions of the portraits. Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, medical and literary biographer, and bibliographer, later wrote the most complete and definitive biography of Harvey (1966, reissued with corrections, 1978). In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart, with some sunning to the spine and faint marks to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the fore edge. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

Keywords: William Harvey Portraits Geoffrey Keynes Portraits Various


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