First edition of Heinrich von Hayek's work on the human lung. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with diagrams throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Friedrich August von Hayek on the front free endpaper, "To Ann, this book of her great uncle in admiration of her scientific achievements from her Grandfather Feb. 21, 1985." Born in Vienna, Nobel Prize-winning political philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek was the oldest of three brothers, Heinrich (1900-1969) and Erich (1904-1986), who were one-and-a-half and five years younger than him. The present volume was his brother Heinrich's major contribution to the study of human anatomy, which Friedrich inscribed to his granddaughter, Anne Williams, an aspiring student of medicine. In fine condition.