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Hardcover, octavo size volume bound in pale tan top grain genuine cowhide, with bound in silk ribbon marker, marbled end leaves designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Cover design and production by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Oodewer, brass die-stamped in 22kt gold. Bilingual edition containing a facsimile of the first Russian edition of 1897 (222 pages), together with the First English translation of 1902 by W.H. Thompson, M.D. (196 pages + ads appended). Special limited edition printed for The Classics of Medicine Library (1982), First edition thus. Previous subscriber’s book-plate laid-in loose indicating that this is copy 921 of an unspecified limited edition. This landmark treatise by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov established the neural (chemical) and psychic (sight, smell, anticipation} links behind the regulation and secretion of the salivary glands, stomach, and pancreas, earning him the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. A pristine and unread gift quality copy. As new.