A Critical and Experimental Essay on the Circulation of the Blood; Especially as Observed in the Minute and Capillary Vessels of the Batrachia and of Fishes

Author: HALL, Marshall
Title: A Critical and Experimental Essay on the Circulation of the Blood; Especially as Observed in the Minute and Capillary Vessels of the Batrachia and of Fishes
Publication: Philadelphia: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1835
Edition: First American Edition

Description: Octavo (23cm). In recent light brown buckram, titled on spine; renewed endpapers; xxiii,[1],168pp; 10 b&w lithograph plates. Former owners' notes to front free endpaper and flyleaf. Rebound, sturdy and tight, but browned throughout, with occasional spots of foxing to plates: Very Good.

The Batrachia clade includes frogs and salamanders. "Marshall Hall clearly distinguished arterioles and venules from capillaries, and he described arteriovenous shunts" (Garrison-Morton 768.1, on the first London edition of 1831). AMERICAN IMPRINTS 32018. Uncommon in the trade.

Seller ID: 56431

Subject: History of Science & Medicine



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