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TIEDEMANN, FRIEDRICH. The Anatomy of the Foetal Brain; with a Comparative Exposition of its Structure in Animals . . . Translated from the French of A. J. L. Jourdan, by William Bennett, M.D. 14 engraved plates. xviii, 324, [1] pages, including half-title and errata leaf. 8vo, modern 1/4 calf with morocco lettering piece; browning along top edges throughout, unobtrusive pencil markings on some plates, small stain in outer margin of plate 1. Contemporary signature of R. Lewin, M.D., on title; 19th-century stamps of the British Medical Association Library on preliminaries. Edinburgh & London, 1826
first edition in english on one of the most important 19th-century works on the embryological development of the brain, ". . . the result of several years of continuous research. He was thus able to record the exact stage at which a number of structures first arose in the fetal brain, together with the duration of brain growth and the time of its completion"--DSB XIII, 402.
