Deux memoires sur le mouvement du sang, et sur les effets de la saignée [...].

8vo: [2]-viii-343 pp. (some staining and browning, title dampst.).

Contemp. quarter calf, marbled paper on covers, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (corners and covers rubbed, joints splitting).

First edition by the Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet Alb. von Haller (1708-1777) of his most important work on circulation and therapeutic bloodletting. Ill. with an engr. front. by Joubert after Pasquier depicting a blood transfusion. Title in red & black. (2 vol.)
Ref. Waller 3997. - Wellcome II:1999. - Blake 195.
Joined: Marque, J. de - Methodique introduction à la chirurgie [...]. Paris, J. Bessin, 1659. 8vo: [16]-214, 63-[3] pp. (some browning, somewhat cut short, some wormtracks). Contemp. limp vellum, flat spine (somewhat stained). Rare later, augm. ed. of J. de Marque's (1569-1622) popular surgical manual. Contains an anatomical and surgical work by N.- A. de La Framboise (1560-1636) and a work on bandages by de Montroeil. Ref. BnF. - Cp. Wellcome IV:59 (ed. 1659). - Not in Krivatsy. (2 vol.)