Über den Bau der Lungen - De fabrica pulmonum commentatio

by Franz Daniel Reisseisen

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. With 6 hand-colored plates. 1 vols. Folio. Original boards, with paper label. Fine. Hirsch IV, 761: Classische Schrift ; Choulant/Frank 309. Item #247681 In 1804 the Academy of Sciences in Berlin offered a price for the best essay on the structure and the function of the lungs. The Strasburg physician, Franz Daniel Reisseisen, obtained the price; Soemmering received honourable

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