Medicine - Anatomy - Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas. Illustrations of the human auditory organ. With 9 copper plates by G. Rücker and J. C. Eckardt after C. Koeck, 4 of which are outline drawings and fully executed. Frankfurt, Varrentrapp and Wenner, 1806. X, 36 pp. 41 x 29 cm. Interim paperback of the period (stained and heavily bumped, joint cover torn). First edition. - Garrison-Morton 1554 - One of "his masterpieces on the senses" (Hirsch-H. V, 330). - Untrimmed. - Title verso and page 2 with old library stamps. Ex-libris Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bibliothek Posen with imprint "Geschenk der Kgl. Paulinischen Bibliothek, Münster i. W. 1900". - Foxing. VAT: *

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