Lot 187
John Dean: Gray Substance (photoliths, 1864)

Estimate: $850 - $1,250

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Dean, John. The Gray Substance of the Medulla Oblongata and Trapezium. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1864). (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 173). 75 p., [16] plates, 9 with 36 photolithographs ("Photo-Lith. by L. H. Bradford").

"The principal object in view, in the following memoir, has been to give the entire topography of the medulla oblongata and trapezium, with illustrations from a series of photographs, the negatives of which have been prepared solely by myself, and have in no case received any retouching..... For the labor and patience bestowed on the photo-lithographs by Mr. L. H. Bradford....I owe and gladly render my most grateful thanks."---from the Preface, by John Dean. A classic of photomechanical incunabula. Modern half-cloth binding. No ownership markings. Hint of minor moisture damage to several plates. Quite clean. Very good.


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