BEVERWYCK, Jan van. : - Lot 127

BEVERWYCK, Jan van. : De Calculo Renum et Vesica, liber singularis, cum epistolis & consultationibus magnorum virorum; Leide, ex officina Elzeviriorum, 1638. Small in-12, (8 ff), 306 pages, (7 ff) index. Full eighteenth-century calf, boards framed with foliate scrolls. (Covers and corners lacking leather: epidermis on second board. Small marginal worm gallery on about 30 pages). First edition. Beverwyck (1594-1647) was a professor of medicine in Dordrecht. This is the first book to include an admiring mention of Harvey's revolutionary discovery of blood circulation (De motu cordis, 1628). Bookplate of Protestant pastor Jacques-Antoine Rabaut-Pommier (1744-1820), founder of a major hospital in Montpellier in 1783 (Willems, Les Elzevier, no. 463). Provenance: Bibliothèque humaniste du Morbihan.