SWAN, Joseph (1791-1874). A Demonstration of the Nerves of the Human Body. London: Longman, Reese, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830.
SWAN, Joseph (1791-1874). A Demonstration of the Nerves of the Human Body. London: Longman, Reese, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830. 2° (650 x 493 mm). Engraved title, engraved dedication and 50 engraved plates after E. West (including 25 outline plates). (A few tears to gutter margin of title, engraved dedication laid down, some occasional scattered light foxing, last outline plate torn and repaired.) 19th-century half morocco, edges gilt (some restoration to spine and corners). Provenance : from the collection of Dean Edell. FIRST EDITION . Swan's was the largest and most splendidly produced atlas of neuroanatomy ever published in English, providing life-size depictions of the autonomic nervous system, the cranial nerves, and the spinal nerves. McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology , p. 520; Heirs of Hippocrates 1482.
SWAN, Joseph (1791-1874). A Demonstration of the Nerves of the Human Body. London: Longman, Reese, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830.
SWAN, Joseph (1791-1874). A Demonstration of the Nerves of the Human Body. London: Longman, Reese, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830. 2° (650 x 493 mm). Engraved title, engraved dedication and 50 engraved plates after E. West (including 25 outline plates). (A few tears to gutter margin of title, engraved dedication laid down, some occasional scattered light foxing, last outline plate torn and repaired.) 19th-century half morocco, edges gilt (some restoration to spine and corners). Provenance : from the collection of Dean Edell. FIRST EDITION . Swan's was the largest and most splendidly produced atlas of neuroanatomy ever published in English, providing life-size depictions of the autonomic nervous system, the cranial nerves, and the spinal nerves. McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology , p. 520; Heirs of Hippocrates 1482.
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