Medical. [Descartes] Renatus Des Cartes/De Homine, figuris e...

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Medical. [Descartes] Renatus Des Cartes/De Homine, figuris et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl, second edition, Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Ex Officinâ Hackiana, 1664, a respectable if imperfect copy of this seminal work, textually complete and collating: [38], 121 (i.e. 123), [1]pp, with in-text etchings and wood engravings, 10 etched and engraved anatomical plates as called for, 2 folding and the others full-page, of which only one plate (i.e. Fig: I the heart and lungs) has movable overlays, which have been repaired, when two plates are called for thus, another plate (i.e. Fol. 110. No.2, the nervous system) is present but defective, its counterpart is loose (i.e. Fol. 110. No. 1), the text is fresh and legible, in some places there are minor stains/soiling and/or creasing, infrequent chipped edges but with no loss of text, disbound between contemporary English blind-ruled calf boards, 4to, [Provincial Dorset Printing] Graves (Robert, M.D.), A Pocket Conspectus of the New London and Edinburgh Pharmacopœias, first edition, Sherborne: Printed by W. Cruttwell, et al., 1796, complete, collating: viii, 112pp, interleaved with slightly later manuscript notes, contemporary calf over marbled boards, 8vo, [Royal College of Physicians], Pharmacopœia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Parisiis: Theophilum Barrois, 1788, engraved folding plate, former damp spots and occasional stains, mostly marginal, contemporary English speckled calf, some wear, 8vo, Ball's Modern Practice of Physic, volume III only, third edition, London: A. Millar, 1768, marginal worm trail, otherwise unexamined, contemporary calf, worn, 8vo, [&] Huxley's Lessons in Elementary Physiology, tenth edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, folding frontispiece of a human skeleton, in-text illustrations, lacking ffep, split, some foxing, original cloth, worn, 8vo, (5) 

Provenance: 1st: Ex dono Ja. Leigh A.M./Cott. Chr. Soc./1673, dated ink MS ownership inscription to ffep; others later.