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Amsterdam,: Scheltema & Holkema,, 1931.. 11, [i, blank], [ii, index], 14, [ii, blank] pp. Folio (33 x 44 cm.). Original cloth portfolio (in the lowe marging of the front side a very small tear; some minor dust soiling). With 108 magnificent large plates in Helio engravings after photographic records of original sections, and their flimseys. ¶ A very good copy of one of the best Atlases on the subject. Jelgerma did important investigations concerning the small brains and gave with his colleague Cornelis Winkler, the Dutch neuro-anatomy an international reputation. See: 'N.N.B.W.' XI, 274.

Haarlem,: F. Bohn,, 1938.. [iv], (190), [i] pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With 91 illustrations and one coloured table. A separated editions, with a new title-page and preface, of author's chapter in Bouman - Brouwer, Leerboek der Zenuweziekten, I, 1.

Bruxelles,: Société Encyclographique,, 1839.. 59, [i] pp. 12mo. (12 x 17.5 cm.). Original printed wrappers (dust soiled), uncut. ¶ Very rare. The last 30 pages are: 'RAPPORT sur le travail qui précède, lu dans une réunion de médecins; par le. Dr. (Corneille) Broeckx' [1807-1869], who is considered to be the father of History of Medicine in Belgium.

Paris,: J.B. Ballière,, 1872.. xii, 1120 pp. 8vo (14,5 x 23 cm.). Contemporary half olive morocco (rubbed & faded), spine gilt lettered. With 1 folded, partly, coloured, plate, 2 plain plates, and 255 fine wood engravings in the text. Garrison & Morton, 4543. Best edition of Duchenne's first major work. Including on page 357 the first description of partial brachial plexus paralysis, upper type, (Duchenne-Erb's palsy). According to its author, this edition is "almost a new book", and contains nearly 200 more pages of text, and 151 more illustrations than the first edition. With a list of Duchenne's publications, and a valuable illustrated description of numerous inductoria. Duchenne, one of the greatest clinicians of the nineteenth century and one of the greatest neurologists of France, employed induced current in the treatment of paralysis and other nervous disorders. "He first set out to classify the electrophysiology of the entire muscular system, studying… Read More

Paris,: Germer-Baillière,, 1835.. x, 640 pp. 8vo (13,5 x 21 cm.). Contemporary half olive calf (joints worn), spine gilt lettered. Second enlarged French translation, expanded with additions communicated by the author to the translator. This work is the first textbook of neuropathology. "Classical and Standard Work in Neurology"(MacHenry). "His definitive descriptions of the various diseases afflicting the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves were a major contribution to neuropathology and this book stands as a milestone in the development of neuropathology"(Heirs of Hippocrates". Garrison & Morton, 2285. --(Light scattered foxing & browning but a good copy).

Paris,: Albin Michel,, (1930-1931). 3 volumes; 384, 384, 384, pp. Sm. 4to (14 x 185, cm.). . Original illustrated wrappers, uncut. With 136 folded plates. ¶ Fine copy of this remarkable Pathalogie Litteraire, perhaps Cabanès best, but certainly most charming, work. Finely illustated. Included are: Baudelaire, Byron, Chateaubriand, Molière, Pascal, Shelley, Wagner, La Fontaine, Rousseau, Rétif de la Bretonne, Saint-Pierre, Lamennais, Auguste Comte, Alfred de Muset, Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, de Concours (bros), Hoffman, Swift, Quincey, Coleridge, Cooper, Tennyson, Heine, Chopin, Gogol, Gontcharov, Lermontov, Dostoievsky.

London,, 1948.. 471 pp. 8vo. Orig. Cloth.

Paris,: Plon,, 1912.. Paris, Plon, 1912. [iii], ii, 271 pp. Small 8vo. Blue cloth, spine with gilt lettered morocco label. ¶ A collection of 12 essays, i.a. Defence sociale contre les maladies nerveuses, Devoirs de la societe vis-a-vis des alienés, Responsabilité attenuee, Un demifou de génie Auguste Comte desequilibre constant et fou intermittent, etc.

Paris,: J.B. Ballière,, 1846.. xvi, 371, (i) pp. In-8 (14 x 22 cm.). Couverture originale imprimée, non rogné. Avec 1 plance dépliant, h.t., représentant un fac-similé de la lettre de Pascal trouvée dans son purpoint, après sa mort. ¶ Première édition. Intéressant ouvrage dans lequel Lélut s'attache à démontrer que Pascal était un aliéné. Il élabore une théorie des idées: les idées étaint examinées à leur point de départ, puis à leur retour au point de départ. "C'est à ce second état que se rapportent les hallucinations qu'il définit comme des transformations spontanées de la pensée en sensations les plas souvent externes" (Brierre de Boismon, De maladies mentales p. 695). Ainsi Lélut attribue la naissance de Provinciales et de Pensées… Read More

(Amsterdam & 's-Gravenhage),, (1849).. 16 pp. 4yo. Modern blue wrappers with 'Simili Japon' endpapers. With 8 fine figures on 2 lithographed plates from the presses of Meijer & Co, Amsterdam. ¶ Vrolik was professor of anatomy and surgery at Groningen, and later at Amsterdam. His greatest contributions were in the fields of vertebrate anatomy and embryology. Schroeder van der Kolk is especially known as the reformer of mental care in Holland. His works on neurology and neuropathology are looked upon as "neurological classics". --(Separate from Verh. d. Eerste Klasse Kon. Ned. Inst. 3e Reeks, Deel I , 1849).

Metuchen, N.J. & London,: The Scarecrow Press,, 1989.. xviii, 431 pp. 8vo. (14.5 x 22 cm.). Original publisher's cloth. 'This book is intended as a biobibliographical guide and index to a subject which has come to be recognized as important to the history of a wide range of modern disciplines. Although not long ago phrenology was commmonly dismissed with amused contempt, recent scholarship vieuw it as one of the most significant...' (from the introduction). There are 1029 biographical entries, 2207 bibliographical references, and 50 entries on phrenological institutions and societies, covering the British Isles alone.