PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich (1849-1936). Lektsii o rabote glavnykh pishchevaritel'nykh zhelez [Lectures on the Activity of the Digestive Glands]. St. Petersburg: Ministry of Communications Press, 1897.

细节
PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich (1849-1936). Lektsii o rabote glavnykh pishchevaritel'nykh zhelez [Lectures on the Activity of the Digestive Glands]. St. Petersburg: Ministry of Communications Press, 1897.

8° (185 x 133mm.). 16 illustrations in the text, final three pages of the works of the author and his colleagues. (First few leaves slightly discoloured.) Contemporary half cloth, red lettering piece on spine (slightly rubbed). Provenance: faded library stamp of a Russian hospital on second leaf.

FIRST EDITION. Printing and the Mind of Man 385; Grolier/Horblitt 83 ("famous work on digestive juices by the demonstrator of the 'conditioned reflex'"); Dibner Heralds of Science 135; Garrison & Morton 1022 ("Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion ... he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1904").