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HIGHMORE (NATHANIEL)
Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica in qua sanguinis circulationem, FIRST EDITION, The Hague, Samuel Broun, 1651

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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HIGHMORE (NATHANIEL)

Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica in qua sanguinis circulationem, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, additional engraved pictorial title with leaf of letterpress description bound after title, one engraved plate (numbered XII), 19 engraved illustrations (numbered I-XI, and XIII-XVIII, and 2 unnumbered, 2 shaved at margin), the additional title slightly trimmed within platemark and re-inserted, blindstamped calf antique [Garrison-Morton 382; Krivatsy 5602; Norman 1071; Wellcome 7472768], small folio (273 x 172mm.), The Hague, Samuel Broun, 1651

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Dedicated to William Harvey, the Corpus humani disquisitio anatomica was intended "to redesign physiology and anatomy in the direction of Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood.... Agreeing with Harvey that the heart's sustaining relationship to the body was analogous to the sun in the wider macrocosm, Highmore explicitly defined the origin and function of circulation beyond Harvey's more circumspect treatment" (ODNB).

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