Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 320

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND. Neurographia universalis; hoc est, Omnium corporis humani nervorum simul & cerebri, medullaeque spinalis descriptio anatomica . . . editio nova. 21 (of 22) engraved anatomical plates, most folding; 8 text engravings; lacks plate 23. [18] (of [20]), 252, [2] pages, including half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait of Vieussens, and final errata leaf; lacks plate with arms of the dedicatee. Folio, 18th-century 1/2 sheep gilt, joints heavily worn and partly cracked, cover corners worn through; contents toned, occasional soiling and minor spotting, scattered light marginal dampstains minimally affecting plates, short clean tears in a few folding plates. Bookplates of Dr. E. Bourdin and A. Benardes de Oliveira (sale at Swann, 1 October 1981, lot 493). Lyon: Jean Certe, 1685

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first edition, second issue, with title dated 1685 instead of 1684. "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 (first issue). Garrison-Morton 1379; Krivatsy 12403.