[Rarebooks] fa: ALBRECHT VON HALLER - DE PARTIUM CORPORIS HUMANI 1779 -8 vols. in 5 - PHYSIOLOGY

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Alberti Halleri [Albrecht von Haller]: De Partium Corporis Humani Praecipuarum Fabrica Functionibus. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Luzac & van Damme, MDCCLXXIX [1779]. Eight volumes bound in five; 8vo; late nineteenth-century burgundy cloth; 488, 489, 284, 352, 212, 380, 403, 447 pp.; two engraved plates, woodcut decorations and initials.
An early edition of von Haller's monumental work synthesizing virtually all European physiological and anatomical knowledge up to that time. First published as Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani in 1757-66, the second edition, revised and retitled De Partium Corporis Humani, was published posthumously in 1777-78. This Leiden edition appears to  be rather uncommon: OCLC locates only one other example, appropriately enough at the Universiteit Leiden. Contents of VOL. I: Fibra. Vasa. Circuitus sanguinis; VOL. II: Cordis fabrica. Motus. [Two engraved plates]; VOL. III: Elementa sanguinis; VOL. IV: Sangunis motus; VOL. V: Secretio humorum; VOL. VI: Respiratio; VOL. VII: Respiratio. Vox; VOL. VIII: Cerebrum. Nervi.

Deaccessioned from the Birmingham Medical Institute (UK), with its name in gilt on the lower spine and fairly unobtrusive ink stamps on the plates and the initial title-pages of each volume; no other library marks. Wear and short tears to the spine heads of several vols., some rubbing and wear to the edges and hinges; front interior hinge of vol. I cracked at the title-page, some cracking between a few other page-gatherings, but bindings and text blocks are secure; age-toning to the leaves (mostly light), a few page corners bumped, faint damp-stain to several leaves in vol. VII-VIII; otherwise contents are quite clean and crisp, securely bound.