Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
BERNARD, CLAUDE. Leçons sur la Physiologie et la Pathologie du Système Nerveux. viii, 520; 560 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 222x145 mm, original wrappers; isolated insignificant foxing, one gathering browned in Volume 2, contents otherwise clean; overall an excellent set, uncut and unopened. Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1858 [i. e., 1875]

Additional Details

first edition of Bernard's textbook of neurophysiology, but later state with publisher's 12-page catalogue at end of Volume 2 dated January 1875. Garrison-McHenry, page 201 ("an outstanding summary of his work, as well as that of his predecessors"); Garrison-Morton 1399.