Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 312

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND. Neurographia universalis; hoc est, Omnium corporis humani nervorum simul & cerebri, medullaeque spinalis descriptio anatomica . . . editio novissima. Engraved portrait of Vieussens; 22 folding engraved anatomical plates on 21 leaves; 8 engraved text illustrations. [16], 252, [2] pages, including half-title and final errata leaf. Folio, 335x220 mm, needs rebinding; marginal toning throughout, soiling and marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, old inscription and stamp on half-title, most plates trimmed to varying extent though without image loss and mounted on larger sheets, 19th-century owner's partly lewd embellishments in ink on a few plates, the 2 large plates at end heavily soiled, the second of them loose with blank portion excised and restored. sold as is. Lyon: Jean Certe, 1716

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"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). Waller 9962 (this edition).