Lot 135
  • 135

Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • paper
A fine group of 7 papers (including a preface, and one by another author about him) in 6 volumes, spanning his entire career, as follows:



"Experimenteller Beitrag zum Nachweis des Accomodationsmechanismus der Blutgefässe" [with:] "Ueber die reflectorische Hemmung der Speichelabsonderung," offprint from Pflüger's Archiv für Physiologie, volume 16, [Bonn: 1877], pages 266-292, 8vo, from the libraries of Carl Ludwig and Lewis H. Weed, with their ownership stamps on front wrapper; marginal soiling, a few edge-tears. The first paper relates to Carl Ludwig's work on blood pressure and circulation, while the second shows how Pavlov's interest in the digestive process began before he graduated from medical school.  — Estestvoznania I Mozg ["Natural science and the Brain"]. Moscow: Imperial Moscow University, 1910. 8vo, original printed wrappers (upper cover only). First edition of this speech given at the Moscow Congress of Naturalists and Doctors,  28 December 1909. — Naturwissenschaft und Gehirn. Wiesbaden: J.F. Bergmann, 1910. 8vo, 12-pp. publisher's advertisement at the end. Original blue printed wrappers; light soiling at bottom edge. First edition in German. The printed translation by G.W. Volborth of the above speech. Norman 1666. — Preface to William Garbei, "Anatomicheskoe Issledovanie o dvizhenii Serdtsia I krovi u zhivotnikh" ["Anatomical Research about the movement of the heart and blood in animals"] no. 16 in the series Klassiki Estestvoznania. Moscow: 1927. 8vo, original printed wrappers; two dampstains on backstrip. — Lektzie o rabote bolshiikh polusharii golognogo mozga ["Lectures about working in the hemispheres of the brain"]. Moscow: 1927. 8vo, title printed in red and black, original printed wrappers; backstrip loose. — with a related paper: John Harvey Kellogg. "A Visit to Pavlov's Laboratory," reprinted from Bulletin of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and Hospital Clinic, volume 24 (October 1929), pages 203-211. — In total, 6 pieces in a buff buckram drop-box.

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