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HALLER, Albrecht von (1708-1777). Iconum anatomicarum quibus praecipuae partes corporis humani delineatae continentur. Göttingen: Abram Vandenhoeck (fascicules I-IV), Widow of Abram Vandenhoeck (fascicules V-VIII), 1743-1756.
8 parts in one, 2o (469 x 289 mm). 47 engraved plates (some folding) (a few plates torn). (Some light browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, with old spine label laid down, corners repaired). Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 489).
FIRST EDITION. Published in eight parts, each with a separate title-page, between 1743 and 1756, the complete work contains a total of forty-seven plates by Joel Paul Kaltenhofer (d. 1777), C. J. Rollinus, and others. "The order of the subjects is purely accidental, depending upon the author's occasional necessities of making some accurate dissections of certain organs. Besides the general views of the system of the arteries of the whole body, as given in the last four plates, various other plates represent on a larger scale almost all the arteries of special sites and organs, with the surrounding parts. There will further be found special representations of the diaphragm, the spinal cord, the uterus and its appendages, the omentum, the base of the skull, and the heart" (Choulant-Frank p. 290). Haller used a decimalized system in numbering his anatomic observations, obtaining thereby a greater knowledge of the frequency of different variants; he used the principle of greatest frequency as the anatomic norm. Through later editions and translations in reduced format Haller's work remained a standard source of information on the arterial system until well into the middle of the nineteenth century. Choulant-Frank, pp. 289-90; Garrison-Morton 397; Heirs of Hippocrates; Norman 974; Osler 1153; Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 347-356; Waller 4011; Wellcome III, p.198. RARE.
8 parts in one, 2
FIRST EDITION. Published in eight parts, each with a separate title-page, between 1743 and 1756, the complete work contains a total of forty-seven plates by Joel Paul Kaltenhofer (d. 1777), C. J. Rollinus, and others. "The order of the subjects is purely accidental, depending upon the author's occasional necessities of making some accurate dissections of certain organs. Besides the general views of the system of the arteries of the whole body, as given in the last four plates, various other plates represent on a larger scale almost all the arteries of special sites and organs, with the surrounding parts. There will further be found special representations of the diaphragm, the spinal cord, the uterus and its appendages, the omentum, the base of the skull, and the heart" (Choulant-Frank p. 290). Haller used a decimalized system in numbering his anatomic observations, obtaining thereby a greater knowledge of the frequency of different variants; he used the principle of greatest frequency as the anatomic norm. Through later editions and translations in reduced format Haller's work remained a standard source of information on the arterial system until well into the middle of the nineteenth century. Choulant-Frank, pp. 289-90; Garrison-Morton 397; Heirs of Hippocrates; Norman 974; Osler 1153; Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 347-356; Waller 4011; Wellcome III, p.198. RARE.