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DEAN, JOHN. The Gray Substance of the Medulla Oblongata and Trapezium. 16 plates, comprising 10 mounted photolithographs by L. H. Bradford reproducing photomicrographs by Dean, and 6 engravings after drawings by him. [4], 75 pages. 4to, 286x225 mm, later drab wrappers, binding cocked, upper outer corner of covers and contents bumped; title foxed with adhesive remnant in gutter, plates browned along edges with scattered foxing, last plate mounted inside rear cover. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, February 1864)
first edition; issue with mounted photolithographed plates. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 173. "John Dean, a physician, pioneered the microscopic study of the central nervous system. His book, the first to offer photographic illustrations in neuroanatomy, was also the first American attempt to publish a photographic medical book. It is a classic in its field"--Grolier/Schwartz 52. Garrison-Morton 7331; see also Burns, Early Medical Photography in America, pages 1229 and 1248.
