BERNARD, Claude (1813-78). Mémoire sur le Pancréas et sur le role du suc pancrétique, Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1856, 4°, FIRST SEPARATRE EDITION, 9 engraved plates on 5 folding sheets, plates 5-9 hand-coloured (1.4 misbound between 2.4 and 3.1, closed hole to upper inner margin of first 7 leaves, light spotting), modern half morocco and marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in (extremities of wrappers brittle), t.e.g. [GM 1000.1: "the most beautifully illustrated of all Bernard's writings which summed up the results of his work on the role of the pancreas in digestion"; Norman 202; Waller 964]