[Rarebooks] FS: The foundation of plant physiology & Hales' 1st book. London: 1727

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(BOTANY) Hales, Stephen. VEGETABLE STATICKS: or, an Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables: Being an Essay Towards a Natural History of Vegetation. Also, a Specimen of an Attempt to Analyse the Air, by a Great Variety of Chymio-Statical Experiments... London: Printed for W. and J. Innys, and T. Woodward. 1727. First edition. (7),vii,(2),376pp. Illustrated with 19 copper engraved plates. Cont. calf, gilt ruled covers, brown calf spine label, rubbed, hinges cracked but holding fine. Spine with small chips at head & foot, and a small gouge in the middle.    $1,750.00 (trade discount allowed)

The first edition of Hales' (1677-1761) first published book, the foundation text of plant physiology. He later discovered that plants grow by taking carbon dioxide from the air, and was the first to quantitatively measure arterial blood pressure. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 189(a). Dibner 26.
 

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