Book Description

4to. (12), 143, (13) pp., 10 folding plates. Very good crisp copy in contemporary calf spine gilt, front hinge expertly repaired. Signature of R.S. Creed on prelims.
Dealer Notes
Identical to the first edition of 1704, Garrison Morton 1546. The first detailed anatomy of the muscles and nerves of the ear. Valsalva divided the ear into outer, middle, and inner. He named the Eustachian tube and the labyrinth, recognising the existence of the labyrinthine liquid.
Author Antonio Maria Valsalva
Date 1707
Publisher Utrecht, van de Water, 1707.

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