Lot 174: PAVLOV, IVAN PETROVICH.

LEKTSII, O RABOTE GLAVNYKH' PISHEVARITEL'NYKH ZHELEZ' [LECTURES ON THE ACTIVITY OF THE DIGESTIVE GLANDS]. ST PETERSBURG, 1897

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

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.