Prof. Dr. Alberti von Haller - Primae lineae physiologiae in usum praelectionum academicarum auctae et emendatae - 1751

568 pages, 2 sheets. Plain later cardboard volume, with handwritten RT (RT partly missing) , complete red cut, small ownership entry in the endpaper, a university stamp in the title, title vignette.

- early second edition, first published in 1747. "As a physiologist he was the greatest of his time. Many apparently 'new' discoveries of later times had already been accounted for by Haller" (Garrison-M.) . Albrecht von Haller (1708 - 1777) Bernese physician, botanist and science journalist . Because of the wide range of his abilities, Haller was considered a polymath. His achievements in the anatomical and bibliographical fields were of lasting importance for medicine. Haller also emerged as a poet and literary critic of the Enlightenment era, best known as the creator of monumental poetry.

Good on the outside with some signs of wear/Very good on the inside.

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