GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN and JOSEPH GUICHARD DUVERNEY. Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, composée de l'essai et de la suite de l'essai d'anatomie en tableaux imprimés (...d'après les parties disséqueées & préparées, par M. Duverney). Paris: Chez Gautier...Quillau...Lamesle, 1746 (-1748). Folio, 535 x 395mm. (21 1/8 x 15 1/2in.), contemporary vellum dyed green, worn, lacks ties, text leaf [6] and its attached plate 2 detached and with blank edges slightly frayed, 2 1/4-inch tear affecting right side of double-page plate 20 and also the lower margin of its text leaf, this plate slightly stained, a few marginal stains throughout. General title printed in red and black, title-page "Essai d'anatomie" in black dated 1745, "Avertissement" page with "Approbation/Privilege" on verso, drop-title "Suite de l'essai d'anatomie" with "Avertissement" beneath preceding plate 9, 20 mezzotint plates printed in four colors and varnished, 11 of which are double-page. Choulant-Frank, p. 271; Wellcome II, p. 97. | Christie's

Lot 79

Property from the Estate of ALAN L. WEINER

GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN and JOSEPH GUICHARD DUVERNEY. Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, composée de l'essai et de la suite de l'essai d'anatomie en tableaux imprimés (...d'après les parties disséqueées & préparées, par M. Duverney). Paris: Chez Gautier...Quillau...Lamesle, 1746 (-1748). Folio, 535 x 395mm. (21 1/8 x 15 1/2in.), contemporary vellum dyed green, worn, lacks ties, text leaf [6] and its attached plate 2 detached and with blank edges slightly frayed, 2 1/4-inch tear affecting right side of double-page plate 20 and also the lower margin of its text leaf, this plate slightly stained, a few marginal stains throughout. General title printed in red and black, title-page "Essai d'anatomie" in black dated 1745, "Avertissement" page with "Approbation/Privilege" on verso, drop-title "Suite de l'essai d'anatomie" with "Avertissement" beneath preceding plate 9, 20 mezzotint plates printed in four colors and varnished, 11 of which are double-page. Choulant-Frank, p. 271; Wellcome II, p. 97.

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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN and JOSEPH GUICHARD DUVERNEY. Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, composée de l'essai et de la suite de l'essai d'anatomie en tableaux imprimés (...d'après les parties disséqueées & préparées, par M. Duverney). Paris: Chez Gautier...Quillau...Lamesle, 1746 (-1748). Folio, 535 x 395mm. (21 1/8 x 15 1/2in.), contemporary vellum dyed green, worn, lacks ties, text leaf [6] and its attached plate 2 detached and with blank edges slightly frayed, 2 1/4-inch tear affecting right side of double-page plate 20 and also the lower margin of its text leaf, this plate slightly stained, a few marginal stains throughout. General title printed in red and black, title-page "Essai d'anatomie" in black dated 1745, "Avertissement" page with "Approbation/Privilege" on verso, drop-title "Suite de l'essai d'anatomie" with "Avertissement" beneath preceding plate 9, 20 mezzotint plates printed in four colors and varnished, 11 of which are double-page. Choulant-Frank, p. 271; Wellcome II, p. 97.