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viii, 184; 16 pp. 4 engraved folding plates. (4to) 23.5x18.5 cm (9¼x7¼") period boards, spine lettered by hand, edges speckled red. Custom red morocco-backed clamshell box. First Edition.

A presentation copy, inscribed by Soemmerring on the verso of the front free endpaper. Bound with this copy is Ernest Godfried Baldinger's Praemittitur Epitome Neurologicae Physiologico-Pathologicae (Göttingen, [1778]) "The present work is Soemmerring's doctoral dissertation on the origin and classification of the twelve cranial nerves. He believed that the cranial nerves had their origin in the ventricle walls and that the cerebrospinal fluid was the seat of the soul and the "sensorium commune" postulated by Prochaska. He also described the topography of the cerebral hemispheres, the pineal gland, and the optic chiasma." - Heirs of Hippocrates. Garrison-Morton 1383; Heirs of Hippocrates 1130.