HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-94). Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen, Brunswick: Friedrich Viehweg, 1863, 8° (214 x 140mm.), FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved illustrations (slight occasional spotting), contemporary half morocco and speckled boards (extremities rubbed). [Dawson 3256; Garrison & Morton 1562; Norman 1044]; Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Leipzig: Ambrosius Barth, 1882, 3 volumes, 8°, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, modern quarter cloth and boards. (4)

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HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-94). Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen, Brunswick: Friedrich Viehweg, 1863, 8° (214 x 140mm.), FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved illustrations (slight occasional spotting), contemporary half morocco and speckled boards (extremities rubbed). [Dawson 3256; Garrison & Morton 1562; Norman 1044]; Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Leipzig: Ambrosius Barth, 1882, 3 volumes, 8°, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, modern quarter cloth and boards. (4)

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The first work is an important one in the history of acoustics, containing "the fundamental discoveries of the author on the physical theory of music," and explaining "the physiological effects of music on the ear and its transmission through the nerves to the brain." (Dawson)

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