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GALL, Franz Joseph (1758-1828) and Johann Christoph SPURZHEIM (1776-1832). Recherches sur le système nerveux en général et sur celui du cerveau en particulier. Paris: F. Schoell and H. Nicolle, 1809.
4o (292 x 215 mm). Half-title, engraved plate by Bouquet after J.G. Pértre (light staining). Contemporary calf, spine gilt (some abrasions to sides and rubbing to joints). Provenance: Hopital Psychiatrique de la Charité sur Loire (ink stamp on half-title, small library call-slip pocket on front flyleaf).
FIRST EDITION. An anatomical memoir submitted to l'Institut de France, and published with the report of the Institut's commission (headed by Philippe Pinel); later reissued as the first volume of Gall and Spurzheim, Anatomie et physiologie du systéme nerveux (Paris, 1810-1819). Norman 861; Wellcome III, p.84.
4o (292 x 215 mm). Half-title, engraved plate by Bouquet after J.G. Pértre (light staining). Contemporary calf, spine gilt (some abrasions to sides and rubbing to joints). Provenance: Hopital Psychiatrique de la Charité sur Loire (ink stamp on half-title, small library call-slip pocket on front flyleaf).
FIRST EDITION. An anatomical memoir submitted to l'Institut de France, and published with the report of the Institut's commission (headed by Philippe Pinel); later reissued as the first volume of Gall and Spurzheim, Anatomie et physiologie du systéme nerveux (Paris, 1810-1819). Norman 861; Wellcome III, p.84.