BELL, Charles (1774-1843). The Anatomy of the Brain explained in a series of engravings, London: by C. Whittingham for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1802, 4° (306 x 245mm.), 12 stipple-engraved plates after the author printed in colours and finished by hand (thumb-soiling to title and some other leaves, waterstain to outer margin of final leaves), uncut in original blue boards with paper title label on upper cover (rebacked in paper, corners worn), modern cloth case. [Norman 168: "Bell was trained in art as well as in his medicine, and his twelve plates illustrating the structure of the brain are among the most beautiful in neuroanatomy"; Wellcome II, p. 135]

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BELL, Charles (1774-1843). The Anatomy of the Brain explained in a series of engravings, London: by C. Whittingham for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1802, 4° (306 x 245mm.), 12 stipple-engraved plates after the author printed in colours and finished by hand (thumb-soiling to title and some other leaves, waterstain to outer margin of final leaves), uncut in original blue boards with paper title label on upper cover (rebacked in paper, corners worn), modern cloth case. [Norman 168: "Bell was trained in art as well as in his medicine, and his twelve plates illustrating the structure of the brain are among the most beautiful in neuroanatomy"; Wellcome II, p. 135]

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