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ALBINUS, Bernard Siegfried. Historia musculorum hominis. Leiden: Theodor Haak and Hendrik Mulhovius, 1734.
4o (270 x 215 mm). 8 engraved folding plates by Jan Wandelaar (4 in outline). (Some browning to a few leaves.) Later half morocco over contemporary boards, uncut (some wear along edges, some soiling). Provenance: J.C. Alb. Eichelberg (signature on front flyleaf, a few ink notations in text).
FIRST EDITION of Albinus' very detailed verbal descriptions of all the muscles of the human body, with four excellent illustrations depicting the muscles of the hand drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar. The plates show the hand life-size with all the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones. According to Punt, these were the first plates in which the artist and engraver Wandelaar "applied the 'architectonic' procedure of 'projective' transposition of the objects to paper with the aid of a pair of compasses and a ruler" (Punt, Albinus, p. 7; also see pp. 1-6). Boyes, On the Shoulders of Giants, pp. 10-11 (noting that Albinus's anatomical studies of the hand are still quoted, especially in regard to the intrinsic muscles); Choulant-Frank, p.280; Heirs of Hippocrates 829; Norman 28; Roberts & Tomlinson p.328; Wellcome II, p. 26.
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FIRST EDITION of Albinus' very detailed verbal descriptions of all the muscles of the human body, with four excellent illustrations depicting the muscles of the hand drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar. The plates show the hand life-size with all the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones. According to Punt, these were the first plates in which the artist and engraver Wandelaar "applied the 'architectonic' procedure of 'projective' transposition of the objects to paper with the aid of a pair of compasses and a ruler" (Punt, Albinus, p. 7; also see pp. 1-6). Boyes, On the Shoulders of Giants, pp. 10-11 (noting that Albinus's anatomical studies of the hand are still quoted, especially in regard to the intrinsic muscles); Choulant-Frank, p.280; Heirs of Hippocrates 829; Norman 28; Roberts & Tomlinson p.328; Wellcome II, p. 26.