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BELL, Charles. A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves. London: Longman and Rees; Cadell and Davies, 1803.
4o. 9 plates, 3 of which are folding (some foxing and staining). (Some staining, title page trimmed at upper margin.) Modern brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Jefferson(?) R. Davidson (signature on free endpaper); Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate, his sale, part I, Swann, 1 March 1979, lot 87).
FIRST EDITION. Norman 169.
[With:] BELL. Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. 4o. With 7 plates and illustrations in text. Half calf. FIRST EDITION. Norman 170. -- The Hand, It's Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design. London: William Pickering, 1833. 8o. Illustrations in text. Contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. Norman 175. -- "On the Nerves of the Face; being a second paper on that subject." In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1829, pt. II). 4o. Original wrappers. (4)
4o. 9 plates, 3 of which are folding (some foxing and staining). (Some staining, title page trimmed at upper margin.) Modern brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Jefferson(?) R. Davidson (signature on free endpaper); Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate, his sale, part I, Swann, 1 March 1979, lot 87).
FIRST EDITION. Norman 169.
[With:] BELL. Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. 4o. With 7 plates and illustrations in text. Half calf. FIRST EDITION. Norman 170. -- The Hand, It's Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design. London: William Pickering, 1833. 8o. Illustrations in text. Contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. Norman 175. -- "On the Nerves of the Face; being a second paper on that subject." In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1829, pt. II). 4o. Original wrappers. (4)