SÉNAC (Jean-Baptiste) - Lot 918

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SÉNAC (Jean-Baptiste) - Lot 918
SÉNAC (Jean-Baptiste) Treatise on the structure of the heart, its action and its diseases. Paris, Vincent, 1749. 2 volumes in-4 : XLIV, 2f, 504pp, 1f. (errata) ; 17 folding plates (engraved by Robert and de Poilly after Potier) in fine / 2f. 694pp. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title and black endpapers, cold fillet on the boards, fine restoration of the corners, double gilt fillet on the edges, red edges. A fine copy. First edition of this work considered as one of the first and clearest treatises on the structure and diseases of the heart. The author was the first to give a good description of the coronaries and to prescribe quinine against palpitations.
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