Tractatus de Corde. Item de Motu & Colore Sanguinis et Chyli in eum Transitu

by Richard Lower

$20,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: John Redmayne for James Allestry, 1669. First edition, second issue, complete with all seven folding plates, of the most important work on the heart and the circulation after Harvey’s De motu cordis — the book that recast the heart as a single spiral muscle, proved by experiment that dark venous blood is turned bright red in the lungs and not in the heart, and gave the first sustained printed account

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