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Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich.
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Description
- Lektsii, o rabote glavnykh' pishevaritel'nykh zhelez' [Lectures on the activity of the digestive glands]. St Petersburg, 1897
8vo (180 x 120mm.), one full-page illustration and graphs, modern brown half calf, original green printed wrappers bound in, title-page and wrappers mounted on guards, stamp partly erased from dedication leaf and p. 37, occasional light marginal scoring and faint pencil underlining
Provenance
L.Y. Beloborodova, bookplate
Literature
Garrison & Morton 1022; Grolier, Science, 83; PMM 385
Catalogue Note
first edition of pavlov's celebrated lectures on the physiology of digestion, the subject for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1904. A copy of a contemporary photograph of Pavlov with his pupils is loosely inserted.