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BELL, Charles. The Hand. It's Mechanisms and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design. London: William Pickering, 1833.
8o (222 x 145 mm). Wood engraving in text. Original blue cloth, printed paper spine label (label slightly browned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped). Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 284A).
FIRST EDITION. Bell's classic work on the hand, illustrated with his small vignettes, was the fourth in the series of Bridgewater treatises, endowed by the Earl of Bridgewater for the purpose of demonstrating that the power, wisdom and goodness of God could be shown by examining His works. Bell discussed the hand's anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics and comparative anatomy, as well as its utility and adaptive importance, the sense of touch, the substitution of other organs for the hand, and related topics. Garrison-Morton 411.1; Gordon-Taylor 56; Keynes, Pickering, p. 52; Norman 175.
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FIRST EDITION. Bell's classic work on the hand, illustrated with his small vignettes, was the fourth in the series of Bridgewater treatises, endowed by the Earl of Bridgewater for the purpose of demonstrating that the power, wisdom and goodness of God could be shown by examining His works. Bell discussed the hand's anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics and comparative anatomy, as well as its utility and adaptive importance, the sense of touch, the substitution of other organs for the hand, and related topics. Garrison-Morton 411.1; Gordon-Taylor 56; Keynes, Pickering, p. 52; Norman 175.