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Description: Frankfurt am Main: Varentrapp und Wenner, 1806, Gr.Folio, VII, 7, II, 6 pp., 4 Kupfertafeln, feiner marmor. Pappband mit Rückenschild; unbeschnittenes, feines Exemplar. First Edition. Samuel Thomas von Soemmering's (1755-1830) work on the tongue and the male larynx, one of his principal atlases. The great German anatomist's "abbiding interest in anatomy of the sense organs was especially stimulated after his discovery in 1791 of the foeva entralis in the macula lutea. Betwenn 1801 and 1810 he published four groups of illustration of the human sense organs. The work was greatly enriched by copper-plate engravings based on Koeck's drawings. In preparaeing the drawings Soemmering was less concerned with correct perspective than with architectonically correct representations of the material." E. Hintzsche, DSB 12, pp.509 ff. "The representation of the tongue are of especially great value" Choulant/Frank. Wenzel-Naß, Soemmering Bibliogr. 49; Waller 9042; Heirs of Hippocrates No.1135; Bast, T.H., The life and work of Samuel Thomas von Sömmering. Ann. med. Hist., 6, 369-86. Garrison & Morton No.1455
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SOEMMERRING, S.T.. Abbildungen der menschlichen organe. Varentrapp und Wenner, Frankfurt, 1806.
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Description: With 4 engraved plates (2 in outline). Modern paper covered boards. First edition of the author's principal work on the special sense organs which contains concise and accurate descriptions of the tongue and the male larynx, the illustrations of the tongue being particularly valuable. G&M, 1455.
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