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VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND DE. 1641-1715.
Neurographia universalis. Lyons: Jean Certe, 1716.

4 December 2019, 13:00 EST
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VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND DE. 1641-1715.

Neurographia universalis. Lyons: Jean Certe, 1716.
Folio. (335 x 221 mm). Half title, 30 plates (13 folding) including portrait frontispiece. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in 7 compartments. Old repairs to joints, puncture marks through several leaves at inside margins, browning.

"Editio Novissima." Vieussens' masterpiece, still considered one of the most complete and accurate descriptions on the nervous system written in the 17th century. "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 2152, on the 1684 edition). Garrison & Morton 1379; Norman 2152 (1684 ed.); Radcliffe 511; Waller 996.

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