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QUAIN, Richard (1800-1887). The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body with its Applications to Pathology and Operative Surgery. London: Taylor and Walton, 1844.
Plate volume only, 2o (658 x 550 mm). 87 partially colored lithographed plates, mounted (some minor dampstaining and spotting, some marginal repairs). (Title-page and text leaves repaired at gutter and margins.) Later half morocco (rebacked preserving original spine).
Second edition. Richard Quain, the younger brother of Jones Quain, became surgeon to Queen Victoria. His major work was this very large lithographic atlas, based on the findings of the dissection of "nearly a thousand subjects." The artist was a friend and former pupil, the anatomist and surgeon Joseph Maclise. Quain's atlas improved on the prior works by Haller, Scarpa and Tiedemann, especially since Tiedemann's plates "did not show the veins and nerves in connection with the arteries. Moreover they gave less emphasis than they should have done to variations and anomalies " (Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 561-62.) Wellcome IV, p. 453.
Plate volume only, 2
Second edition. Richard Quain, the younger brother of Jones Quain, became surgeon to Queen Victoria. His major work was this very large lithographic atlas, based on the findings of the dissection of "nearly a thousand subjects." The artist was a friend and former pupil, the anatomist and surgeon Joseph Maclise. Quain's atlas improved on the prior works by Haller, Scarpa and Tiedemann, especially since Tiedemann's plates "did not show the veins and nerves in connection with the arteries. Moreover they gave less emphasis than they should have done to variations and anomalies " (Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 561-62.) Wellcome IV, p. 453.