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Lugduni Batavorum, 1725. In 4°, red and black printed title page, pp. (14)-214-(2) with 7 figures in 5 f.t. plates. Light browning, slight blooms. Contemporary binding in full parchment.
Specialist Notes
First translation from English into Latin of the very rare and important work The anatomy of the brain published in London by Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford in 1695, the first illustrated work entirely dedicated to the brain. The plates were engraved by van der Bucht based on drawings by the great anatomist and surgeon William Cowper. Ridley was a skilled dissector and notes in the preface that he examined the brains of normal and diseased individuals and even the brains of recently executed criminals. Garrison-Morton-Norman 1379.1 (first English edition); Osler 3805; Waller 7977.
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