Author: Sir Charles Bell
Title: The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design
Description: London, William Pickering, 1834. Cloth. An impressively detailed and illustrated study of the comparative anatomy and physiology of the hand. The third edition of this anatomical study from Scottish surgeon and physician Charles Bell, illustrated throughout with vignette engravings after Bell's own drawings. An early textbook of comparative anatomy, Bell compares 'hands' of various organisms, ranging from human hands to chimpanzee paws and fish feelers. Bell explored the physiology, kinesthetics and adaptive importance of the hand, among many other discussion points.Illustrated throughout, and with eight pages of advertisements to the start of the work.A remarkable collection of treatises on the anatomy and physiology of the hand. In a full cloth binding with original paper spine label to back strip. Losses to head of spine label. Bumping to spine head and tail. Split to the cloth at head of front joint, with board holding firm. Marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with areas of both spotting and foxing, most concentrated to page perimeters. Two leaves towards front of text block uncut to top edge. Good . Ill.: Charles Bell. Good .
Keywords: hand nerves anatomy surgery nerves Charles Bell
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Title: The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design
Description: London, William Pickering, 1834. Cloth. An impressively detailed and illustrated study of the comparative anatomy and physiology of the hand. The third edition of this anatomical study from Scottish surgeon and physician Charles Bell, illustrated throughout with vignette engravings after Bell's own drawings. An early textbook of comparative anatomy, Bell compares 'hands' of various organisms, ranging from human hands to chimpanzee paws and fish feelers. Bell explored the physiology, kinesthetics and adaptive importance of the hand, among many other discussion points.Illustrated throughout, and with eight pages of advertisements to the start of the work.A remarkable collection of treatises on the anatomy and physiology of the hand. In a full cloth binding with original paper spine label to back strip. Losses to head of spine label. Bumping to spine head and tail. Split to the cloth at head of front joint, with board holding firm. Marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with areas of both spotting and foxing, most concentrated to page perimeters. Two leaves towards front of text block uncut to top edge. Good . Ill.: Charles Bell. Good .
Keywords: hand nerves anatomy surgery nerves Charles Bell
Price: GBP 270.00 = appr. US$ 385.56 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 798F6
- Book number: 798F6
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