Medecine

1792 · 8882 — Berlin: Vossischen Buchhandlung 1792. First edition. Original marbled paper over boards. Good. w/ edgewear to original binding spine about 25 percent chipped interior Very Good pages clean w/ occasional light waviness but almost no spotting. Small quarto pp. 77 plus 10 fold-out plates inside back cover. . Very nice copy of a scarce book particularly scarce in the United States. A famous anatomist during his lifetime Camper did much work on the measurement of cranial and facial bones. Several anatomical structures still bear his name and he is also famous as the anatomist who discovered the air spaces in the bones of birds. Vossischen Buchhandlung hardcover