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TWO VOLUME SET. LIMITED EDITION of 1000 COPIES. COPY No.822 of an important treatise in neuroanatomy by an eminent Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), who won the Noble Prize (together with Camillo Golgi) in Physiology or Medicine in 1906, thereby becoming the first person of Spanish origin to win a scientific Nobel Prize. This special edition has been privately printed for the members of the Classics of Neuroloogy and Neurosurgery Library. Small 41-page booklet with Ramón y Cajal`s portrait pasted on front inner cover, is appended. From the library of Irvine M. Levine - an eminent American physician who discovered Levine-Critchley syndrome in 1960. Contains many b&w figures. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 235x160mm. XX+VIII+769 pages (pagination: [XX+396/397-769+VIII). Black full-leather embossed Hardcover with gilt ribbed spine. Gilt cover and text-block edges. Marbled endpapers. Black cloth ribbon marker in-bound. Gilt leather sticker with previous owner`s name and copy number on front endpaper. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare de-luxe limited edition of lectures on nervous disorders by one of the pioneers of modern neuroscience is AS NEW.