拍品 105
105
COWPER, William (1666-1709). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies. Leiden: printed for J. A. Langerak, and to be had in London from Messrs Innys and Manby, 1737. 2° (518 x 365mm). Engraved additional title and 114 plates, including one folding and 2 double-page, woodcut initials and tailpieces (folding plate with 2 long but closed tears, mainly marginal light thumb-soiling and/or spotting). Contemporary calf, gilt tooled border incorporating bees, snakes, wasps, snails and beatles, spine with raised bands, lettering-piece in one compartment, the others decorated in gilt with floral motifs (head of spine repaired along joints, lower front joint and corners repaired, quite rubbed, some scuff marks). Provenance: Royal Infirmary Medical School, Glasgow (presentation inscription on endpaper, library label on pastedown).
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COWPER, William (1666-1709). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies. Leiden: printed for J. A. Langerak, and to be had in London from Messrs Innys and Manby, 1737. 2° (518 x 365mm). Engraved additional title and 114 plates, including one folding and 2 double-page, woodcut initials and tailpieces (folding plate with 2 long but closed tears, mainly marginal light thumb-soiling and/or spotting). Contemporary calf, gilt tooled border incorporating bees, snakes, wasps, snails and beatles, spine with raised bands, lettering-piece in one compartment, the others decorated in gilt with floral motifs (head of spine repaired along joints, lower front joint and corners repaired, quite rubbed, some scuff marks). Provenance: Royal Infirmary Medical School, Glasgow (presentation inscription on endpaper, library label on pastedown).

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COWPER, William (1666-1709). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies. Leiden: printed for J. A. Langerak, and to be had in London from Messrs Innys and Manby, 1737. 2° (518 x 365mm). Engraved additional title and 114 plates, including one folding and 2 double-page, woodcut initials and tailpieces (folding plate with 2 long but closed tears, mainly marginal light thumb-soiling and/or spotting). Contemporary calf, gilt tooled border incorporating bees, snakes, wasps, snails and beatles, spine with raised bands, lettering-piece in one compartment, the others decorated in gilt with floral motifs (head of spine repaired along joints, lower front joint and corners repaired, quite rubbed, some scuff marks). Provenance: Royal Infirmary Medical School, Glasgow (presentation inscription on endpaper, library label on pastedown).

Second edition. Cowper obtained about 300 sets of the plates to Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis. He issued these with an expanded English text. Blake p.102; Waller 2192; Wellcome II, 401.
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