Robin Ch Charles Philippe (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. lx, 238 pp, 4 plates, 23 text figures; 192 pp [LACKING THE LAST 4 PAGES OF THE TABLE OF CONTENTS, on pp. 193-196] Recent 1/4-cloth and marbled boards, with leather spine leather. Foxing. NOTE ABOUT CONDITION: I am calling this copy "Very Good" because of its physical condition. But it is lacking 4 pages of the Table of Contents so some might prefer to call it a "reading copy" or some other low level of condition. My price very much reflects the fact that 4 pages are lacking. First Edition. "Robin was one of the early writers on histology and published a large number of papers and books on the microscope and microscopic structures" (Bulloch, The History of Bacteriology, p. 392). "Robin was the leading proponent of the Société de Biologie; he urged its creation, wrote up its statutes, and . . . directed its initial activities (1848). . . . He set forth in detail his own ideas on biology in two books published in 1849 and 1851, Du microscope [offered here] and Tableau d'anatomie" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography XI: 491).…

First edition. 8vo., rebound in cont. cloth, marble paper boards, (lx), 238;196pp. With four plates and other illustrations in the text. Stamp on lower foredge, some foxing throughout, edges worn but certainly a very good copy. Charles-Philippe Robin [1821-1885] French anatomist, biologist and histologist. He received his medical doctorate in 1846, collaborated with Littre on the famous "Dictionnaire de Medicine (1873) and was the first chair of histology at the Paris faculty of Medicine.…