Cardiac medicine.- Lower (Richard) Tractatus de Corde item De Motu & Colore Sanguinus et Chyli in cum Transitu, first edition, Jo. Redmayne, 1669.

Cardiac medicine.- Lower (Richard) Tractatus de Corde item De Motu & Colore Sanguinus et Chyli in cum Transitu, first edition, 7 folding engraved plates, near contemporary ink inscription to title, A6 replaced with cancel leaf, bookplates, occasional faint spotting, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt arms to covers, a little rubbed, housed in a modern drop-back box, [Garrison-Morton 761; Krivatsy 7157; Norman 1397; PMM 149; Russell 539; Waller 6046; Wellcome III, p 552; Wing L3310], 8vo, Jo. Redmayne, 1669.

⁂ Nobel Laureate André Cournand considered Lower's book to be one of the most important texts on physiology because of the nature of its observations, the rigour of it experimental design and demonstrations, and it simple and convincing form of presentation.

Provenance. Bookplate and arms of Petrus Daniel Huetius, Bishop of Avranches. His library and manuscripts, although bequeathed elsewhere, were eventually bought by the King of France for the Royal Library.