Heading: (Medical)
Author: Sherrington, Charles S.
Title: The Integrative Action of the Nervous System
Place Published: London
Publisher:Archibald Constable & Co.
Date Published: 1906
Description:

xvi, 411 pp. Numerous illustrations in text. (8vo) 22.5x15 cm (8¾x5¾"), original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Precedes the first American edition issued in the same year. Perhaps the single most important work in the neurosciences in the first part of the 20th century, penned by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine. With an ownership signature by E. Mary Smith (Lady Frederick Bartlett) on the front free endpaper, and coming from Sir F Bartlett's library and the collection of the neuroscience collector, William L.R. Cruce. Sir Frederick was First Professor of Psychology at Cambridge. "This work stands as the true foundation of modern neurophysiology; it is considered by Fulton to rank in importance with Harvey's De Motu Cordis." (Garrison's History of Neurology, p. 229). Grolier, Medicine 90. PMM 397. Norman 1939.

Cloth lightly rubbed and bumped; bookplate on front pastedown, binding internally cracked, very good.