‎HALLER, Albrecht von (1708-1777).‎
‎Primae lineae Physiologiae in usum praelectionum Academicarum. Quarto auctae et emendatae.‎

‎Lausanne, Apud Franc. Grasset et Socio, 1771. [ii], [xii], 562, [ii] pp. Small 8vo. (10.6 x 17 cm.). Contemporary full marbled calf, spine with 5 raisen band in compartments gilt decorated with fleurons and gilt lettered, edges red. With one woodcut header.‎

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‎The best and most complete edition, being the last published and revised by Haller himself. At the same time it is the first appearance of this title with an Swiss imprint. Garrison & Morton 585 (for the first edition of 1747):"Haller was one of the most imposing figures in the whole of medicine, besides being a superb bibliographer and the founder of medical bibliography. As a physiologist he was the greatest of his time. Many apparently "new" discoveries of later times had already been accounted for by Haller. The above work includes Haller's resonance theory, similar to that already propounded by Du Verney and (more than 100 years later) by Helmholt" . A fine copy of the most famous physiological text of the period in an attractive contemporary binding.‎