unzer john augustus (5 Ergebnisse)

1st edn. 8vo (9 x 6 ins). Original blind-stamped gilt decorated green cloth, top edge gilt (spine rebacked with new label; boards rubbed at edges). Pp. xv + 461 (previous owners' bookplate on front paste-down and neat inscription on front free endpaper).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. first edition on worn green cloth.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. green stamped cloth gilt lettering to spine and covers no dust jacket 463 pp bookplate to inside front cover (Samuel Butler) cloth to spine missing at bottom half and at upper edge edges worn and slightly dented at spots Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

pp. XII, xv, (i), 463, (i). Green cloth gilt of the series, top edge gilt, spine faded but a good copy. Ex-libris Anatomy School, Cambridge with usual marks of provenance. *GARRISON-MORTON #1357 UNZER [First edition, 1771] and #1386 PROCHASKA [First edition, 1780-1784] - Unzer was the first to propose the use of the word 'reflex' in connection with sensory-motor reaction; Prochaska introduced the idea of a 'sensorium commune' in the central nervous system, a consistent and comprehensive theory of relex action.

First English edition of each title; 8vo, pp. [iii]-xii, xv, [1], 463, [1]; 20th century green cloth, black cloth label lettered in gilt on spine; very good and sound, but lacking the half-title. "Unzer was probably the first to employ the word `reflex' in connection with sensory-motor reactions" (Garrison-Morton 1457). "Prochaska introduced the idea of a `sensorium commune' in the central nervous system, the function of which is the reflection to the motor nerves of sensory impressions received by the brain" (GM 1386, citing the Prague 1780-84 edition).