Swan, A Demonstration of the Nerves of the Human Body, 1830

A Demonstration of the Nerves of the Human Body, by Joseph Swan. London, Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1830. 
 
Modern full brown cloth over board with black title label on spine. Title label a bit chipped a edges. A few scuffs and scratches on boards. New end papers. Title and dedication leaves re-laid on new paper. Paper repair to establish new fore-edge of Preface leaf. Leaves and plates variably toned and affected by splotches of damp stain and foxing. Scattered additional paper repairs to text leaves. Library stamps throughout. Plate VII with tissue guard. Plate XVI engraving trimmed a bit at fore-edge. Plate XVI diagram leaf has closed tears and loss at top edge, not involving illustration, and has been re-laid. Corresponding text leaf for Plate XVI damaged at edges and re-laid. Hinges intact, and binding tight throughout. 
 
New ffep, title, dedication, prelims (to page 7), 16 engraved plates with 16 corresponding diagrammatic plates and corresponding text leaves (mostly unnumbered, mostly one leaf per plate), new rfep. 
 
G-M 6952: Joseph Swan (1791 – 1874), “The largest and most splendidly produced atlas of neuroanatomy originally published in English, with plates that remain unsurpassed as works of art. Later editions were in reduced format.” 
 
See also G-M 7596 which documents that Swan elsewhere published, “early discussion of peripheral nerve injuries, tumors, and inflammation of nerves, including issues of pain and healing.” He “was among the first of the 19th-century surgeons to argue that divided nerves that are surgically repaired heal best,” and published the “first animal experiments on nerve injuries.”