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VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND. Neurographia universalis;hoc est, Omnium corporis humani nervorum simul & cerebri, medullaeque spinalis descriptio anatomica. 22 engraved anatomical plates, most folding; 8 text engravings. [18] (of [20]), 252, [2] pages, including half-title, plate with arms of the dedicatee, Cardinal Piero de Bonzi, and final errata leaf; lacks the engraved portrait of the author. Folio, 343x225 mm, contemporary speckled vellum boards, covers slightly warped, extremities rubbed; contents toned with scattered foxing, portions of plates 28 and 29 browned with the latter partly separated at folds, front free endpaper lacking, bookplate removed from front pastedown. Lyon: Jean Certe, 1685
first edition, second issue, with title reset and 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.
