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SWEDENBORG, Emanuel.
The Brain. Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically.
Volume I. The Cerebrum and its Parts; Volume II. The Pituitary Gland, Cerebellum and Medulla Oblongata. Edited, translated, and annotated by R.L. Tafel.
First edition, translated directly from the Stockholm Manuscript which had lain untouched in the Archives of the Swedish Academy of Sciences for close to 140 years. Swedenborg "contributed significantly to neurology in his anatomical studies and physiological doctrines… The most remarkable achievement along neurological lines… is his definition of the correct location and regional representation of the motor area in the cerebral cortex." (McHenry) Tafel adds a commentary which places Swedenborg's work in the context of contemporary physiologists. The title page of Volume I describes the work as "in four volumes," only these two volumes were ever published. An unusually nice set of an elusive title.
2 volumes, octavo. Original mid-brown cloth, title gilt to spines, portrait bust in roundel gilt to the upper boards, Swedenborg's arms in gilt to the lower boards. Ex-University of London library, with their bookplates to the front pastedowns, and small ink stamps verso of titles and to last leaves, but overall a very good set indeed, the cloth clean and bright, very slight cracking of the hinges of Volume I.
