BELL, Charles. The Nervous System of the Human Body: Embracing the Papers Delivered to the Royal Society on the Subject of the Nerves . Washington, D.C.: Duff Green for the Register and Library of Medical and Chirurgical Science, 1833.
BELL, Charles. The Nervous System of the Human Body: Embracing the Papers Delivered to the Royal Society on the Subject of the Nerves . Washington, D.C.: Duff Green for the Register and Library of Medical and Chirurgical Science, 1833. 8 o (210 x 130 mm). 12 wood-engraved plates. (Gatherings 3 and 4 loose in textblock, trimmed at outer margin affecting letters of text on a few leaves.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (some light wear along joints and edges). Provenance : Winslow Lewis, Jr. (ownership signature on front pastedown). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. [ With: ] BELL. Practical Essays . Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Company, 1841. 8 o (225 x 143 mm). Half-title. Original blind-stamped cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine). Provenance : William Mackenzie (1791-1686), opthalmic surgeon (bookplate, presentation inscription from Bell on front free endpaper); Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 284A). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Bell on the front free endpaper: "From the Author." Bell most likely presented this copy of his last work to the ophthalmologist William MacKenzie who provided the classic description of the symptomatology of glaucoma in his Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye (1830); the third essay of Bell's work is on squinting. A second volume of Practical essays was published in 1842. Norman 176. (2)
BELL, Charles. The Nervous System of the Human Body: Embracing the Papers Delivered to the Royal Society on the Subject of the Nerves . Washington, D.C.: Duff Green for the Register and Library of Medical and Chirurgical Science, 1833.
BELL, Charles. The Nervous System of the Human Body: Embracing the Papers Delivered to the Royal Society on the Subject of the Nerves . Washington, D.C.: Duff Green for the Register and Library of Medical and Chirurgical Science, 1833. 8 o (210 x 130 mm). 12 wood-engraved plates. (Gatherings 3 and 4 loose in textblock, trimmed at outer margin affecting letters of text on a few leaves.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (some light wear along joints and edges). Provenance : Winslow Lewis, Jr. (ownership signature on front pastedown). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. [ With: ] BELL. Practical Essays . Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Company, 1841. 8 o (225 x 143 mm). Half-title. Original blind-stamped cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine). Provenance : William Mackenzie (1791-1686), opthalmic surgeon (bookplate, presentation inscription from Bell on front free endpaper); Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 284A). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Bell on the front free endpaper: "From the Author." Bell most likely presented this copy of his last work to the ophthalmologist William MacKenzie who provided the classic description of the symptomatology of glaucoma in his Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye (1830); the third essay of Bell's work is on squinting. A second volume of Practical essays was published in 1842. Norman 176. (2)
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