ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried (1697-1770). Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, Leiden: J. & H. Verbeek, 1747, 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved title vignette, engraved dedication leaf (with accession stamp), 28 engraved plates and 12 outline plates by Jan Wandelaar (blindstamp on title and final leaf, plates stamped faintly on rectos, lower half of text and plates affected by damp, a number of repairs to text and plates, some affecting image, one text leaf torn with slight loss, others trimmed without loss), recent half calf. [Blake p. 9; Choulant/Frank p. 281; GM 399; Norman 29: "among the most artistically perfect of anatomical atlases"; Wellcome II, p. 26 (lacking plates)] Provenance: Mortimer Frank (bookplate)

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ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried (1697-1770). Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, Leiden: J. & H. Verbeek, 1747, 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved title vignette, engraved dedication leaf (with accession stamp), 28 engraved plates and 12 outline plates by Jan Wandelaar (blindstamp on title and final leaf, plates stamped faintly on rectos, lower half of text and plates affected by damp, a number of repairs to text and plates, some affecting image, one text leaf torn with slight loss, others trimmed without loss), recent half calf. [Blake p. 9; Choulant/Frank p. 281; GM 399; Norman 29: "among the most artistically perfect of anatomical atlases"; Wellcome II, p. 26 (lacking plates)] Provenance: Mortimer Frank (bookplate)

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ALBINUS'S PRINCIPAL WORK. An illusion of vitality is gained from the lush ornamental backgrounds to Wandelaar's plates while the contrasts of mass and light create a three-dimentional affect. The most famous plates depict a rhinocerous from Amsterdam Zoo, drawn from the first living specimen in Europe and this creature was adopted by Albinus and Wandelaar as the symbol of their atlas.

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