Lot 460
Luys, Jules Bernard
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
Iconographie photographique des centres nerveux. Paris: J.B. Ballière et Fils, 1873. 4to, atlas volume only, signed and inscribed by author on title-page, 70 photographic plates and 64 lithographs, original green cloth gilt, some slight darkening to margins, title-page darkened, RCSI library stamps to title-page and versos of some plates, covers soiled and a little rubbed, shelf lean
Footnote
Note: Jules Bernard Luys was a Parisian-born medic who became well-known within his sphere through his research on the anatomy and pathology of the nervous system. John S. McKenzie writes that Luys wished, "...to cover the central nervous system in its entirety..." and published Recherches sur le système nerveux cérébro-spinal: sa structure, ses fonctions et ses maladies in 1865. This was accompanied by forty lithographic plates. In 1873, Luys published another atlas on the human brain - this time accompanied by an atlas volume of 64 lithographic and 70 photographic plates (Cabinet of Art and Medicine), showing cross-sections of the brain. The combination of photographs and drawings was thought up, according to McKenzie, as, "...the photographs provide objective delineation of major structures, while the drawings enable... more accurate detail to be defined within them." (McKenzie, John S. Jules-Bernard Luys and his brain atlas, in University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 6, 2010)