Wagner, R. [F. J. H.]
Icones physiologicae. Tabulae physiologiam et geneseos historiam illustrantes. Erläuterungstafeln zür Physiologie und Entwickelungsgeschichte mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf seine Lehrbücher über Physiologie und vergleichende Anatomie, herausgegeben von Rudolph Wagner.
Leipzig, Leopold Voss, 1839. Two parts in two (text and atlas). Folio (34.7 x 27.4 cm). Three title pages, 91 pp. [81; x]; 30 engraved plates, of which two double-sized. Original uniform quarter-cloth portfolios with printed title mounted on the front boards.
A very rare original – as published – copy, of an influential work by the German anatomist Rudolf Friedrich Johann Heinrich Wagner (1805-1864). "Wagner conducted research in a number of areas. His most important work concerned mammalian ova and sperm.... It remained for Wagner to discover (1835)...the nucleolus" (DSB). Portfolio straps partly lost; boards a bit soiled; text leaves somewhat foxed, mainly in the margins; plates - on thicker paper - generally cleaner. DSB vol. XIV, pp. 113-114.
