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