Substantial neuroanatomy

BONHOMME, Jean.

Traité de la cephalotomie, ou description anatomique, des parties que la tête renferme.

Avignon: Francois Girard, 1748.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003952

4to (243 x 188 mm). [10], 448, [8] pp., engraved allegorical frontispiece, title with printer's device, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 24 engraved and etched plates (2 folding). Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with 5 raised bands, morocco lettering piece and gilt decoration in compartments, red-dyed edges (spine ends scuffed, corners bumped and scuffed, wear to board edges, lacks front free endpaper). Text and plates generally quite fresh with only light even browning, brief early marginalia in a few places, small dampstain to lower corner of few pages and 2 plates, small worm trail in blank fore-edge margin of the final portion (p. 391+), small hole (paper flaw) in p.265/6 not affecting text. Provenance: Arthur Edward Lyons, acquired from Dawsons in 1996. Very good, tall copy. ----

RARE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this work on neurology by an otherwise obscure French surgeon from Avignon. Although evidently published in limited numbers, the illustrations in the book are first rate. The text constitutes one of the era's most important surgical manuals on the structure and anatomy of the head. The work on the nervous system of the head and face comprises three parts: the brain and its cortex, the face and the anatomy of the sense organs, and the bony parts of the head as well as a description of the spine.
Bibliography: Wellcome II, 199; NLM/Blake 57; Barbier IV, 17961; Hirsch-H. I, 620. Not in Norman. - Visit our website to see more images!

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