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4to, pp. xviii 152.
4 engraved plates highlighted with coloured washes, signed ‘Dr Müller
ad nat. del.’ and numbered Tab I–IV (bound at end).
260 x 205mm. Intermittent foxing; plates discoloured.
Binding: Later nineteenth­century cloth backed boards. Corners worn.
Provenance: Mathias Duval (1844–1907) with his address label on
upper board and pastedown.
First edition.
‘In his Bildungsgeschichte der Genitalien he clariWed the very complicated
relationships between the initial form of the kidneys and their ducts, on
the one hand, and the sexual organs, on the other. He discovered that the
embryonic duct (described by Heinrich Rathke) now called “Müller’s duct”
forms the Fallopian tubes, uterus, and vagina: only rudiments of it are found
in the male.’ (Johannes Steudel, DSB 9:570b.)
This monograph traces the development of the Müllerian ducts into the
female organs, their development being inhibited in the male. The discovery
of the ducts was Wrst reported by Müller in a journal article in 1825 (see
Garrison–Morton 475).
This copy has an important provenance, having belonged to Mathias
Duval (1844–1907) one of the pioneers of placental histology and author of
Le placenta des rongeurs (1890–1892).
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MÜLLER, Johannes Peter (1801–1858)
Ueber den Bau und die Grenzen der Ganoiden und über das
natürliche System der Fische.
Berlin, 1846.
8vo, pp. 91–141.
210 x 125mm. Light browning.
Binding: Recent quarter morocco, original plain front wrapper
preserved.
Provenance: Presentation inscription on on wrapper and a 5­line
note addressed to ‘Dr Ludwig’ in the author’s hand (Carl Friedrich
Wilhelm Ludwig, 1816–1895), and 5 corrections in the text (one
slightly cropped); Art Nouveau bookplate of Charles Atwood.
Extract from Archiv für Naturgeschichte 11(1845), 91–141.
From the 1830’s Müller had worked on zoological classiWcation and from about
1840 he devoted most of his time to comparative anatomy and zoology.
This journal extract was sent by the author, so presumably there was no
oVprint. The recipient was Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1816–1895),
appointed associate professor at Marburg in the following year. George Rosen
describes Ludwig as one of ‘that remarkable group of German physiologists
and teachers who in the latter half of the nineteenth century created modern
physiology’ (DSB 8:541b).