Manual of human embryology. 2 vols. Original cloth. Very good set. Bookplates of Alton Ochsner. Garrison-Morton.com 526.
Publisher Information: Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott, 1910-1912.
Keibel, Franz (1861-1929) & Franklin P. Mall (1862-1917), editors. Manual of human embryology. 2 vols. iii-xviii, 548; viii, 1032pp. Text illustrations. Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott, 1910-12. 260 x 176 mm. Original cloth, gilt-lettered spines, shaken, inner hinges in Vol. II splitting, minor edgewear. Light foxing and toning but very good. From the library of Alton Ochsner (1896-1981), with his bookplate in both volumes and his signature in Vol. II.
First Edition in English. The important studies on human embryos originated by Wilhelm His were carried on by his pupils, Keibel and Mall, in their Manual of Human Embryology. This classic work written by fifteen American and German experts “has not yet been superseded” (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, late 20th century). The set was published “simultaneously” in German and English, though the German edition of the second volume was dated 1911. J. Playfair McMurrich translated the chapters written in German into English for the English language edition while Franz Keibel translated the chapters written in English into German for the German edition.
This copy is from the library of Alton Ochsner, founder of the Ochsner Clinic (now the Ochsner Medical Center) in New Orleans. The Ochsner Clinic was one of the first to document the connection between cancer and cigarette use; “his leadership in exposing the hazards of tobacco and its link to lung cancer remain one of his most important contributions” (Wikipedia). Garrison-Morton.com 526. Norman 1203.
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