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HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND VON (1821-1894).
HELMHOLTZ, H. VON. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1883. Volume II (only, of 3), 8°. Half-title. 5 lithographic plates by C. Kirst, 2 folding. (Occasional light spotting or browning.) Original publisher's cloth, the covers panelled in blind, the spine lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed). PROVENANCE: Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952, inscription on title dated 1894); Richard Stephen Creed (b.1898, presentation inscription from Sherrington on half-title, dated 3 July 1933). FIRST EDITION. FROM THE LIBRARY OF C.S. SHERRINGTON, the joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1932 for his work on the functions of neurons, and later presented by him to R.S. Creed, co-author with Sherrington and others of Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord (Oxford: 1932).
HELMHOLTZ, H. VON. Vorträge und Reden ... Zugleich dritte Auflage der "Populären wissenschaftlichen Vorträge". Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and Son, 1884. 2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles. Colour-printed and monochrome illustrations in the text. (Scattered light spotting.) Modern cloth. PROVENANCE: Emil Reif (inkstamp on half-title of volume I). For the fourth edition cf. Waller 10831.
KOENIGSBERGER, LEO (1837-1921). Hermann von Helmholtz. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and Son, 1902-1903. 3 volumes, 8°. Half-titles. Heliogravure portrait frontispieces and 6 plates, double-page facsimile manuscript. Original publisher's cloth gilt, marbled edges (spines darkened, extremities lightly rubbed). PROVENANCE: early shelfmarks on half-titles; Carl-E. Kohlhauer (bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper of volume I). FIRST EDITION. 'THE STANDARD BIOGRAPHY' (Dictionary of Scientific Biography VI, p.253). (5)
HELMHOLTZ, H. VON. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1883. Volume II (only, of 3), 8°. Half-title. 5 lithographic plates by C. Kirst, 2 folding. (Occasional light spotting or browning.) Original publisher's cloth, the covers panelled in blind, the spine lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed). PROVENANCE: Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952, inscription on title dated 1894); Richard Stephen Creed (b.1898, presentation inscription from Sherrington on half-title, dated 3 July 1933). FIRST EDITION. FROM THE LIBRARY OF C.S. SHERRINGTON, the joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1932 for his work on the functions of neurons, and later presented by him to R.S. Creed, co-author with Sherrington and others of Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord (Oxford: 1932).
HELMHOLTZ, H. VON. Vorträge und Reden ... Zugleich dritte Auflage der "Populären wissenschaftlichen Vorträge". Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and Son, 1884. 2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles. Colour-printed and monochrome illustrations in the text. (Scattered light spotting.) Modern cloth. PROVENANCE: Emil Reif (inkstamp on half-title of volume I). For the fourth edition cf. Waller 10831.
KOENIGSBERGER, LEO (1837-1921). Hermann von Helmholtz. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and Son, 1902-1903. 3 volumes, 8°. Half-titles. Heliogravure portrait frontispieces and 6 plates, double-page facsimile manuscript. Original publisher's cloth gilt, marbled edges (spines darkened, extremities lightly rubbed). PROVENANCE: early shelfmarks on half-titles; Carl-E. Kohlhauer (bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper of volume I). FIRST EDITION. 'THE STANDARD BIOGRAPHY' (Dictionary of Scientific Biography VI, p.253). (5)
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