Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DU BOIS-REYMOND, ÉMIL. On Animal Electricity. Half-title; final leaf with printer's imprint * MORGAN, CHARLES E.; and HAMMOND, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Electrophysiology and Therapeutics. Together 2 volumes. Small 8vo, modern brown morocco, with old institutional stamp on preliminaries and elsewhere; and 8vo, original cloth, top of spine chipped, hinges cracked, with publisher's inscription on front flyleaf. London, 1852; New York, 1868

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first edition in english and first edition, respectively. The first title is an abstract of writings by Du Bois-Reymond on electrophysiology; the second is the most comprehensive English-language book on the subject published until then, drawing extensively on the work of Du Bois-Reymond. See Garrison-Morton 610 note.