[Medicine] 2 titles: (1) L'encéphale. Structure et description iconographique

du cerveau, du cervelet et du bulbe par. E. Gavoy médecin principal de l'armée. Avec Atlas de 59 planches en glyptographie. Atlas. Paris, J.-B. Biellière et Fils, 1886, (4) p., with 4 + 55 plates, contemporary halfmorocco, folio.

Only the atlas. Text leaves tanned, plates with some tanning to margins. Rare early work with highly detailed cross sections ("coupes" cut with a microtome) of the human brains, drawn by Gavoy after nature. Only one copy in PiCarta (Groningen). With 1 other anatomical plate work with text in French and Dutch by J.E.J. van den Berg (1842) (poor ex library copy). (total 2)