General Anatomy, applied to physiology and medicine

by Marie François Xavier Bichat, George Hayword, tr

$750 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Richardson and Lord, 1822. Three volumes. 8vo. 454; 420; 479 pp. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recased. A fine set. Item #18963 First English edition of this text that “revolutionized descriptive anatomy and that … marks the beginning of modern histology” G-M . Relying on verbal descriptions rather than illustrations,

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