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RIDLEY, Humphrey (1653-1708). The Anatomy of the Brain. London: for Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1695.
8o (189 x 120 mm). 5 folding engraved plates by Michael Vander Gucht after drawings by William Cowper (plate 1 with clean tear). (Minor soiling and pale spotting.) Contemporary English gilt-panelled mottled calf (rebacked, worn and dried). Provenance: Richard Butler, Lincoln's Inn (engraved armorial bookplate dated 1703); G. Shuckburgh, All Souls, Oxford (engraved armorial bookplate); Sir George Shuckburgh (engraved armorial bookplate); Carlos F. MacDonald, M.D. (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST SEPARATE ENGLISH MONOGRAPH ON THE BRAIN. "His is the first English descrition of a sarcoma or new growth of the pineal gland. He attacks the use of imagination in scientific writings, and gives anatomical reasons for doubting whether the soul is more seated in the brain than in the body at large" (DNB). It also includes the first account of the circular venous sinus which Ridley names. Ridley added to the accounts of Willis (see lot 866) and Vieussens (see lot 841), "giving one of the first descriptions of the restiform body, the intracavernous venous sinuses and the venous drainage of the corpus striatum" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 1379.1; NLM/Krivatsy 9624; Russell 699; Wellcome IV, p. 526; Wing R-1449; Norman 1833.
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FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST SEPARATE ENGLISH MONOGRAPH ON THE BRAIN. "His is the first English descrition of a sarcoma or new growth of the pineal gland. He attacks the use of imagination in scientific writings, and gives anatomical reasons for doubting whether the soul is more seated in the brain than in the body at large" (DNB). It also includes the first account of the circular venous sinus which Ridley names. Ridley added to the accounts of Willis (see lot 866) and Vieussens (see lot 841), "giving one of the first descriptions of the restiform body, the intracavernous venous sinuses and the venous drainage of the corpus striatum" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 1379.1; NLM/Krivatsy 9624; Russell 699; Wellcome IV, p. 526; Wing R-1449; Norman 1833.