Author: Sir Charles Bell
Title: The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design
Description: London, John Murray, 1852. Cloth. An impressively detailed and illustrated study of the comparative anatomy and physiology of the hand. The revised fifth 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 with vignette engravings and a portrait frontispiece.With a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated January 1852, and the stamp of 'School of Design' to the title page, with no further library markings.A remarkable collection of treatises on the anatomy and physiology of the hand. In the publisher's original blind stamped cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Losses and splits to cloth at spine head and tail and joints, with front and rear joints starting but boards holding firm. Internally, binding lightly strained to centre of text block, with boards holding firm. Library stamp to title page. Light handling marks throughout. Good . Ill.: Sir Charles Bell. Good .
Keywords: hand anatomy comparative anatomy physiology anatomy Sir Charles Bell
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Title: The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design
Description: London, John Murray, 1852. Cloth. An impressively detailed and illustrated study of the comparative anatomy and physiology of the hand. The revised fifth 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 with vignette engravings and a portrait frontispiece.With a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated January 1852, and the stamp of 'School of Design' to the title page, with no further library markings.A remarkable collection of treatises on the anatomy and physiology of the hand. In the publisher's original blind stamped cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Losses and splits to cloth at spine head and tail and joints, with front and rear joints starting but boards holding firm. Internally, binding lightly strained to centre of text block, with boards holding firm. Library stamp to title page. Light handling marks throughout. Good . Ill.: Sir Charles Bell. Good .
Keywords: hand anatomy comparative anatomy physiology anatomy Sir Charles Bell
Price: GBP 115.00 = appr. US$ 164.22 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 798F7
- Book number: 798F7
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