STRUTHIUS, JOSEPHUS. 1510-1568/69.


Sphygmicae artis iam mille ducentos annos perditae & desideratae Libri V. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1555. 8vo. (155 x 100 mm). Large folding table, a few woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary limp vellum, missing ties. Upper right corner of title missing affecting authors name and title lettering, some light staining. Provenance: Bibliotheque de la Ville de Vitry Francois (ink stamp on p 101 and blank verso of final leaf of index). FIRST EDITION. "Considered the most significant work on the pulse between Galen and Harvey. The work includes what is probably the earliest graphic representation of the pulse" (Garrison-Morton). Struthius (1510-1568) was on the faculty at Padua at the same time that Vesalius was there. This very rare book was printed by the same publisher of Vesalius's Fabrica 12 years earlier. RARE: According to American Book Prices Current only one other copy sold at auction in the past 40 years. Bedford 18; Durling 4279; Garrison-Morton 10601; Osler 4051; Waller 9328.