1885. 8vo, pp. [viii], ff. [10] explanatory leaves of text facing an accompanying chromolithograph plate (thus 10 plates); title-page a little browned, with further light marginal browning and foxing throughout; gutter exposed in a couple of places but holding firm; with contemporary signature on title and final verso; in contemporary maroon publisher’s cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine a little rubbed, covers a little soiled, extremities lightly bumped and worn. First English edition of this graphically striking atlas of the cutaneous nerve supply and distribution of the human body, first published in German in the previous year as ‘Atlas der hautnervengebiete’.
Jacob Munch Heiberg (1843 - 1888 Christiania) was a Norwegian doctor and anatomist. After studying he worked as a volunteer and unpaid doctor on the German side in the Franco- Prussian War of 1870 - 1871. He subsequently studied at clinics in Berlin, Rostock, Königsberg, Dresden, Leipzig and Vienna, before returning home where he opened an Eye Clinic in May, 1873. In 1878 he became professor of anatomy, histology and embryology at Oslo and in 1881 was the only professor in the medical faculty who voted for women to be allowed to study.