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BROWNE, John (1642-c.1700). Myographia nova: Or, A Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body ... With an accurate and concise discourse of the heart, and its use; as also of the circulation of the blood ... written by the late learned Dr Lower. London: Thomas Milbourn for the Author, 1697. 2° (343 x 215mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by R. White, and 40 plates (paper-label pasted on verso of plate no. 26 and remnants of label on verso of final leaf of index, some light marginal thumb-soiling). Contemporary panelled calf gilt (neatly rebacked and recornered, a few small holes in front cover, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Alexander & Edward J. Wood; James Walker (Malmesbury) (inscription on recto of portrait).

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BROWNE, John (1642-c.1700). Myographia nova: Or, A Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body ... With an accurate and concise discourse of the heart, and its use; as also of the circulation of the blood ... written by the late learned Dr Lower. London: Thomas Milbourn for the Author, 1697. 2° (343 x 215mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by R. White, and 40 plates (paper-label pasted on verso of plate no. 26 and remnants of label on verso of final leaf of index, some light marginal thumb-soiling). Contemporary panelled calf gilt (neatly rebacked and recornered, a few small holes in front cover, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Alexander & Edward J. Wood; James Walker (Malmesbury) (inscription on recto of portrait).

Third edition of one of the most popular anatomical books of its time. First published in 1681, it went through ten editions. Krivatsy 1822; Wellcome II, 251; Wing B5128.
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