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VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND. Neurographia universalis . . . Editio in Germania prima. 36 engraved plates, half of them folding, numbered 1-30 (counting 4 for plate 28 and 4 for plate 29). [36], 492, [12] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait. 8vo, 163x98 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink, soiled, front cover warped; dampstaining mainly in margins at beginning and end and also on folding plates, contemporary signature in blank lower margin of portrait, repaired clean tear in plates 19 and 26, endpapers wormed in gutters, blank upper outer corner excised from front flyleaf. Frankfurt am Main: Georg Wilhelm Kühn, 1690
Second edition, and first printed in Germany. "The best-illustrated neurological monograph of the seventeenth century . . . He showed the spinal cord to be an independent structure, and his elucidation of the fine structure of the cerebellum (including the discovery of the dentate nuclei) surpassed all previous descriptions"--Norman 2153 (1684 original edition). Krivatsy 12404 (this edition).
