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BLUMENBACH, JOHANN FRIEDRICH. Bound volume containing 7 short works. 4to, 237x190 mm, contemporary 1/4 leather gilt, spine rubbed; first work browned and foxed, the rest relatively clean. Göttingen: Johann Christian Dietrich, 1779-93
Prolusio anatomica de sinibus frontalibus. Aquatint plate. 27, [1] pages. 1779. Blumenbach's inaugural lecture as professor of medicine at Göttingen.
De oculis leucaethiopum et iridis motu commentatio. Hand-colored etched plate. 38 pages. Scattered light foxing on text leaves. 1786. "This fairly early work by Blumenbach is a study on albinism, mutations of eye color, and movements of the iris"--Becker 52.
Specimen physiologiae comparatae inter animantia calidi et frigidi sanguinis. Praemissae sunt De nisu formativo et generationis negotio observationes nuperae. 2 etched plates. [iii]-xxxvi; xxxii pages. 2 parts. 1787.
Commentatio de vi vitali sanguinis. 12 pages. 1788.
Specimen physiologiae comparatae inter animantia calidi sanguinis vivipara et ovipara. Engraved plate. 24 pages. 1789.
Decas [Decas altera] collectionis suae craniorum diversarum gentium. Parts 1 and 2 (of 6). 10 folding engraved plates. 30; 15 pages. 1790; 1793. "Blumenbach was the founder of craniology, and his craniological collection served as the principal foundation for his investigations into the natural history of mankind"--Garrison-Morton 198.
