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FREUD, Sigmund. [Cover title:] ber den Bau der Nervenfasern und Nervenzellen beim Flusskrebs. Offprint from: Sitzb. der k. der Wissenschaften, 3 Abth., 85 (1882). [Vienna: K.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1882].
8o (242 x 155 mm). 20 leaves. [1] 2-38 [2] pp. Folding lithographed plate at end by F. Schima after Freud. Original printed brown wrappers, unopened (slight chipping at ends of spine, small stain on rear cover).
FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Freud to Josef Herzig (see preceding lot) at top front cover: "Seinem lieben Freunde/Dr. Josef Herzig/d. Verf." "In this paper on the nerve cells of river crayfish, Freud was the first to demonstrate conclusively that the axes of nerve fibers are without exception fibrillary in structure...in this and his earlier researches Freud recognized that nerve cells and fibers were a single unit, thus paving the way for the neuron theory a number of years before Waldeyer-Hartz announced it in 1891. Freud had in fact stated as much in a lecture before the Psychiatric Society in 1882..." (Norman). A very rare pamphlet. Grinstein 5; Jones I, pp. 53-54; Standard edition 1882a; Stanford 5; Norman F5.
8o (242 x 155 mm). 20 leaves. [1] 2-38 [2] pp. Folding lithographed plate at end by F. Schima after Freud. Original printed brown wrappers, unopened (slight chipping at ends of spine, small stain on rear cover).
FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Freud to Josef Herzig (see preceding lot) at top front cover: "Seinem lieben Freunde/Dr. Josef Herzig/d. Verf." "In this paper on the nerve cells of river crayfish, Freud was the first to demonstrate conclusively that the axes of nerve fibers are without exception fibrillary in structure...in this and his earlier researches Freud recognized that nerve cells and fibers were a single unit, thus paving the way for the neuron theory a number of years before Waldeyer-Hartz announced it in 1891. Freud had in fact stated as much in a lecture before the Psychiatric Society in 1882..." (Norman). A very rare pamphlet. Grinstein 5; Jones I, pp. 53-54; Standard edition 1882a; Stanford 5; Norman F5.