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De Motu Cordis & Sanguinis in animalibus, Anatomica Exercitatio. Cum refutationibus Aemylii Parisani, Romani, philosophi, ac medici Veniti; et Jacobi Primrosii, in Londinensi collegio doctoris medici by Harvey, William (1578-1657)

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Title: De Motu Cordis & Sanguinis in animalibus, Anatomica Exercitatio. Cum refutationibus Aemylii Parisani, Romani, philosophi, ac medici Veniti; et Jacobi Primrosii, in Londinensi collegio doctoris medici
Author: Harvey, William (1578-1657)
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Description: Leiden: Johann Maire, 1639. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto: 3 books in 1 vol. 19.2 x 14.4 cm. I. Harvey: [iv], 267, [i]; 84, [iv] pp., with 2 engraved plates on two inserted leaves. Collation: (?)2, π2 (the plates), A-Z4, Aa-Kk4, Ll2; (a)-k4, l2, π2 (Ad Lectorem). II. Aselli: [viii], 104, [8] pp., with 4 engraved plates on 4 inserted leaves. Collation: )?(4, π4 (plates with letterpress on versos), A-O4. III. Beckher: (xvi), 170, (vi) pp. Collation: *4, **4, A-Y4. THIRD EDITION (the SECOND COMPLETE EDITION OF HARVEY'S MASTERPIECE.) Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (vellum soiled, with scuffs and slight warping to the binding). Contents in very good condition, title of Harvey lightly soiled, small rust hole in first engraving, some light damp-staining to the latter part of the Harvey and the first part of the Aselli. There are several ink and blind-stamps (Library of the College of Surgeons of Ireland) on the title and in the text. With the 17th c. inscription of Hendrik Lubaeus of Bergen op Zoom, Brabant: "Henricus Lubaeus Bergoz. Possessor. Anno 1644 12/17 Groningae". Lubaeus authored a "Disputatio medica" in 1641, the second half of which concerns the human pulse. Lubaeus' inscription (in Greek) shows that he gave this volume book a gift to a certain "Nicholas". Lubaeus' initials appear at foot of the Harvey and Beckher title pages (dated 7 November 1644). The title to the Aselli is also initialed by him, dated 1641. Textual annotations (almost certainly by Lubaeus) appear in the margins of the Harvey and the Aselli. The second complete edition of William Harvey's revolutionary work in which he accurately described the circulation of blood and the heart's function as a pump. "What Vesalius was to anatomy, Harvey was to physiology; the whole scientific outlook on the human body was transformed, and behind almost every important medical advance in modern times lies the work of Harvey." (Heirs of Hippocrates) When first published in 1628, Harvey's "De Motu Cordis" generated significant opposition by Galenic practitioners. This edition includes two attacks on Harvey (with Harvey's responses) by Emilio Parisano (1635) and James Primrose (1630). Harvey's text is printed together with Parisano's critique, passage-by-passage; the criticisms and refutations of Primrose constitute a separate, second part of the volume. This copy includes the separately-printed 3rd edition of Gaspare Aselli's "De Lactibus, sive Lacteis Venis" (1640), also printed by Maire, announced in the publisher's note to the reader and sometimes, as here, bound with the Harvey (see Keynes, 3rd ed., No. 3, p.37, note). The volume concludes with Daniel Beckher's "Medicus microcosmus"(Leiden, Maire, 1641) (see below). "Harvey proved experimentally that the blood's motion is continuous and always in one direction, and that its actual amount and velocity makes it a physical impossibility for it to do otherwise than return to the heart by the venous route, the heart being itself a muscle and acting as a pump. He showed how the whole of the blood passes through the lungs, is returned to the left side of the heart, then passes through the general circulation and returns to the right side; he even suspected the existence of the capillaries connecting the smallest arteries with the smallest veins, but without the microscope he could not see them. . . . The arguments and demonstrations marshaled by Harvey were too cogent to admit of long resistance, and his work was accepted by medical men in his lifetime." (PMM). Before Harvey, medicine taught that veins carried nutritive blood outward from the liver to nourish the body, while the heart and arteries belonged to a separate system conveying vital spirit and heat; yet after Realdo Colombo's 1559 account of pulmonary circulation, some anatomists began to reconsider the heart as primarily a blood-transmitting organ. By 1616, Harvey advanced this shift through extensive vivisections-especially of dying animals whose slowed heartbeat made its motions clearer-showing that the heartbeat consists of an active contraction followed by passive relaxation, that the arterial pulse is caused by blood expelled from the heart rather than by any intrinsic arterial movement, and that the heart's essential function is to contract and expel blood, transmitting its mechanical impulse to the entire arterial system at once, like the inflation of a glove. His crucial insight was that the heart must transmit a large amount of blood at each beat. (adapted from DSB) "In the first half of 'De motu cordis' Harvey presented his conclusions about the movements of the heart and arteries in a more developed form. He describes how he first took up the study of the movement of the heart, presents his conclusions about the ventricles, arteries, and auricles, emphasizes the idea that the overall action of the heart is the constant transmission of blood from the vena cava to the aorta, and defends the pulmonary circuit of the blood. "Harvey relates how he went beyond this early work on the heart and arteries to the discovery of the circulation. From this account it seems clear that he first conceived of the centripetal flow of venous blood as a necessary consequence of his conclusions about the heartbeat, rather than as the result of a direct investigation of the veins. He realized that over a relatively short period of time the heart transmits from the veins to the arteries even more than the whole mass of the blood; the rate of transmission is in fact so large that if it took place in only one direction, the veins would soon be drained and the arteries filled to bursting." (DSB) 2. ASELLI, Gaspare (1581-1626) De Lactibus, sive Lacteis Venis, quarto vasorum mesaraicorum genere, novo invento ... . Leiden: Johann Maire, 1640 THIRD EDITION (1st ed. 1627) Gaspare Aselli was a distinguished Milanese physician who anticipated Harvey's "De Motu Cordis" with his discovery of lacteal vessels (the lymphatic vessels of the small intestine which absorb digested fats) and their connection to the circulatory system. In "De Lactibus sive Lacteis Venis" he wrote "Perhaps it would not be absurd to suppose that the blood brought to the lung by the pulmonary artery, mingled with the air attenuated by the lung and returned to the left ventricle through the pulmonary vein". (see below) "Aselli, while he was doing an autopsy on a dog on July 23, 1622, to show some friends the recurrent laryngeal nerves, also wished to observe the movements of the diaphragm. Opening the abdomen and holding back the stomach and intestines, of a sudden he noticed whitish cords spread over all the mesentery and intestine in numerous branches. . . . Turning to his colleagues, he cried out: "Eureka!" "He described the valvules at the point of departure of the intestinal vessels and the course of the lymphatics, and, before the publication of Harvey's book, wrote these remarkable words about the circulation: "Perhaps it would not be absurd to suppose that the blood brought to the lung by the vena arteriosa (pulmonary artery), mingled with the air attenuated by the lung and returned to the left ventricle through the arteria venosa (pulmonary vein). Perhaps it is not necessary to imagine the passages that Galen supposed to exist in the interventricular septum, which could not have any use." (Arturo Castiglione, "A History of Medicine" p.521) "His 'De Lactibus sive Lacteis Venis' concluded that these vessels carried chyle, defined as digested food. He described these vessels as terminating at the liver (the seat of blood-making), and his numerous plates appear to show this. Like Harvey, Aselli built his argument on a series of dissections and vivisections. "The lacteals, and the supposed site of sanguification in the liver, thus provided a kind of test case for the theory of circulation, and by the early 1640s Aselli's and Harvey's works often appeared in print together. But Aselli's emphasis on structure masked his vagueness about function; in contrast, Harvey began with function, and used anatomical techniques to support a functional argument." (Anita Guerrini, "Experiments, Causation, and the Uses of Vivisection in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century") 3. Beckher, Daniel (1594-1653) Medicus microcosmus seu spagyria microcosmi. Leiden: Jacob Maire, 1633 SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED (1st 1622). Beckher was professor of medicine at the University of Königsberg from 1623. He was a proponent of spagyric medicine, a branch of alchemy conceived by Paracelsus and dedicated to the production of medicines using alchemical procedures. In this work, he describes remedies "to be learnedly extracted from the body of man, both living and dead . . . with an Index containing medicines for curing diseases derived from the human body." (title page) From antiquity, bodily secretions and other products (urine, blood, feces, ear wax) and body parts (hair, earwax, teeth) had been used in medicine. "In this work the author prescribes the medicinal use of the following products of the human body, taken from people both alive and dead: burned hair is used for epilepsy, suffocation of the uterus ("hysteria" i.e. post-partum depression), apoplexy, and hemorrhage. Saliva (of a fasting person) is used as an antidote for the venom of snakes, scorpions, spiders, rabid dogs and human bites, as well as for treating venereal disease. Breast milk is used in the treatment of tuberculosis, dysentery, depression (melancholy), paroxysm of fevers, epilepsy, eye diseases, uterine problems, and hemorrhoid pain. Menstrual blood is effective in treating gout, leprosy, cholera, and epilepsy. Ingesting the placenta and umbilical cord relieves postpartum pain, epilepsy, depression, colic, and (in powder form) works as a labor accelerator. Urine is used in the treatment of worms, male impotence, scabies, gout, plague, venereal diseases, cancer, ulcerations, irregular menstruation, and gangrene. "Beckher also describes the therapeutic use of feces, semen, blood, kidney stones and (from corpses), skin, fat, the brain; also bearded lichens (usnea) found growing on skulls, bones, and teeth; as well as 'mummy powder'."(translated and adapted from: Argus Vasconcelos de Almeida, Aspectos Históricos do Uso Terapêutico de Produtos e Excreções Humanas, p. 14-15) Keynes "A Bibliography of the Writings of Dr. William Harvey, 1578-1657" 3; Krivatsy 5329 (Harvey) and 447 (Aselli); Wellcome 3070 (Harvey) and 506 (Aselli); Heirs of Hippocrates 256 (Harvey only); Heirs of Hippocrates 417; Parkinson and Lumb 1147; Waller 4089. For Beckher, Krivatsky 1011.

ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια. Υμνοι. ?β. VLYSSEA. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII by Homer

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Title: ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια. Υμνοι. ?β. VLYSSEA. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII
Author: Homer
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Description: Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524. THIRD ALDINE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A married set, bound in matching leather bindings (late 18th- early 19th c.), boards ruled in gold, spines tooled with attractive floral ornaments, red labels with “Homerus” tooled in Roman, and green labels with the Greek titles (“ΙΛΙΑΣ “, “ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ”). The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is tooled on the boards of both volumes. This is a married set, the first volume slightly taller than the second. The edges of the text blocks are stained an even red (Vol. I) and blue (Vol. II). Fine copies with very light damp-staining; titles lightly stained. Outer margin of leaves q7-8 with tide-line. Aldine anchor and dolphin device on the title pages and the versos of the final leaf in each volume. Working from the text of the editio princeps (1488), Aldus produced his first edition of Homer in 1504 in collaboration with members of his Aldine Academy, most notably the Cretan scholar Marcus Musurus and Scipio Forteguerra (Carteromachus). A second edition followed in 1517, two years after Aldus' death, printed by Aldus' father-in-law Andrea Torresano (d. 1528), who also printed this third edition. This edition retains the supplementary material included in the prior two editions. "Whatever our views may be on the authorship of the Homeric poems, there is no doubt of their astonishing quality. They combine legends of a very distant past with a lively sense of the living scene, and though their characters are heroes and heroines, they are remarkably real. The story is told with a great simplicity, but this makes its episodes more dramatic, and in their greatest moments they contain some of the greatest poetry in the world. The plot moves with an unusual speed and the climaxes in both poems make an overwhelming impact. The rich, traditional language is ready for every occasion and, despite its richness, helps to maintain the essential simplicity. The poems are variously exciting, humorous, pathetic, and dramatic, and despite their fantastic elements, never far from common humanity. The similes present a whole world of contemporary people and things that lie outside the actual heroic tale, and the description of the shield of Achilles is surely the poet’s vision of his own world, as he knew it in war and peace. The poet or poets fully deserve their place at the beginning of European literature, since they have marked out for succeeding generations what the poetry of action and suffering ought to be." (OCD).

De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus by Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523)

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Title: De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus
Author: Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523)
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Description: Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524. FOURTH EDITION (1st ed. 1519). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52). Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis, one of the earliest and most important books on the topic. Hutten, who had himself suffered from syphilis since 1508 (and would die of the disease in 1519), describes in detail a therapy using an extract from Guaiacum wood, which is native to the West Indies. It became one of the earliest New World medicinal treatments to be used in Europe. In addition to describing the Guaiacum therapy, Hutten also discusses the transmission of the disease, its symptoms, and other therapies used to treat it, such as the use of mercury (a practice that continued until the early 20th century.) Hutten notes that the disease is spread sexually, with the result that very few children or elderly people become infected; celibate or monogamous people almost never contract the disease. Hutten describes his own symptoms in gruesome detail, including the classic efflorescences on his face and body, and describes for the first time an apparently new syndrome (later identified syphilitic osteomyelitis) that affects the bones. This was confirmed when Hutten’s skeleton was exhumed in the 1968. "In the years following Columbus’s return from the New World, European physicians identified a new “pox” and assigned it various names, including the Spanish pox, the French disease, and the literary “syphilis,” alluding to a popular poem by Girolamo Fracastoro. An old principle held that a disease’s place of origin must also harbor its cure. So it was that the woody part of the guaiacum plant was identified early in the sixteenth century as a source of medication and cure for those suffering from the “new” disease." (Dennis Landis, "Drugs from the Colonies") Hutten “states that guaiacum was brought to Europe from Hispaniola where, he says, all the inhabitants of the island suffer from time to time with the Gallic sickness, and where they use against it no treatment other than guaiacum. He relates that a certain Spanish nobleman, when he was governor in the province and very ill of this disease was shown the remedy by the natives”. (Munger 199) Guaiacum had been recommended to Hutten by his friend, the doctor Heinrich Stromer but it was the physician Paulus Ricius (d. 1541) who, in 1518 administered the medicine to Hutten. Ricius had obtained the bark on an earlier mission to Spain, where it had been imported from Hispaniola. At the conclusion of the treatise are two letters between Hutten and the Ricius. Syphilis, called the Morbus Gallicus (‘French Disease’) or the grande verole (the great pox) swept across Europe in the late 15th c., was at the time believed to have originated in the New World (there had been a violent outbreak at the end of the 15th century during the siege of Naples by the mercenary troops of Charles VIII, who numbered among their ranks Spanish soldiers who had returned from the New World.) “The origins and antiquity of syphilis have long been controversial, resulting in a debated and unresolved problem for the history of medicine. Traditionally, two main hypotheses are accepted: the “Columbian theory,” which asserts that the treponemal infection originated in the New World and was transmitted to Europe by the returning of Columbus from America, and the “pre-Columbian theory,” which claims that the disease was already present in the Old World and evolved into a more virulent form in the 15th century. The book proved to be one of Hutten's most popular writings. It was translated into several languages and achieved numerous editions, of which this is the third. Hutten dedicated the work to his patron, the Mainz Elector and Archbishop Albert von Brandenburg. The closing note is by the proofreader Wolfgang Angst.

Taryn Simon: Paperwork and the Will of Capital by SIMON, Taryn (artist); Aliza WATTERS (editor); Hanan AL-SHAYKH (contributor); Daniel ATHA (contributor); Kate FOWLE (contributor); Nicholas KULISH (contributor)

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Description: Ostfildern, Germany; New York: Hatje Cantz Verlag; Gagosian Gallery, 2016. First edition. As-new. 13.5 x 10 inches. 200 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "In Paperwork and the Will of Capital, Taryn Simon (born 1975)--one of the most original and challenging conceptual artists of our time--brings together geopolitics, horticultural science and the art of still life to investigate how the stagecraft of power is created, performed, marketed and maintained. At signings of political accords, contracts, treaties and decrees determining some of the gravest issues of our time, powerful men flank floral centerpieces curated to convey the importance of the signatories and represented institutions. Simon reconstituted and photographed the flower arrangements from archival images of key events; she then dried and pressed the flowers as herbarium specimens. This sumptuous book, part nature study, part metaphor, bears witness to an elaborate and intriguing process of artistic deconstruction and reconstruction" (the publisher).

The Random House Library of Painting & Sculpture

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Title: The Random House Library of Painting & Sculpture
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The War Diary of a Regimental Surgeon [Cover Title] by [WW1] Anon

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Title: The War Diary of a Regimental Surgeon [Cover Title]
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Description: Carlisle Barracks, PA: Medical Field Service School, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. Textured thick paper wrappers; 108pp. Conspicuous scuff to lower front wrapper; creasing to covers; Very Good. Unattributed memoir of a German field surgeon in WW1, translated for the use of American students at the American Field Service School. Uncommon.

Our Bodies, Ourselves; A Book By and For Women by Boston Women's Health Book Collective

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Title: Our Bodies, Ourselves; A Book By and For Women
Author: Boston Women's Health Book Collective
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Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. Paperback. Good. Ninth Printing. Good. Wraps generally soiled, bumped at the edges and corners, some creases throughout. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned pages, clean otherwise. A classic feminist work providing information about birth control, abortions, self-defense, sexuality, and other topics.

Wilderness America

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Description: Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Very Good. Wilderness America. NP: Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, ND. 14pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Paper wraps. Book condition: Very good with faint rubbing and bumping.

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