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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, Jacques (1717-1786). Exposition anatomique des organes des sens, jointe la nvrologie entiere du corps humain. Paris: Demonville, 1775.
2o (418 x 272 mm). 8 color mezzotints by Gautier père, mounted on extended guards and folded, each signed and dated in the plate, plates 6, 7 and 8 joined together to a large folding plate. Contemporary French mottled or cat's-paw calf, spine gilt in six compartents with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second.
FIRST EDITION. These three works (see below) are the last large anatomical plates made by Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty. "The Anatomie des Parties de la Géneration begins with tall plates of man and of woman, each formed from two sheets and folding out from the book... These first plates showing muscles, arteries and the nervous system are worked out and tabulated in detail. Behind the man is a ghostly arm and shoulder showing the patterns of veins. Among other adjuncts by his foot is an elegant wine-glass meant to demonstrate the texture of male semen mixed with water 'dans le moment de l'éjaculation'. Anyone may make this experiment, he says encouragingly, and repeat it several times. The female figure is a typical Gautier plate, stripped and dissected but with healthy head and throat, charming classical face and hair in perfect order, standing poised as a dance... In the next folding illustration we find a fair instance of his semi-erotic treatment of a scientific theme--one woman standing in profile, her living head looking back to us above a naked breast; the womb open, with folded figure of a foetus. At her feet and knees, almost in a lesbian attitude, a nude figure finely modeled sits to show the 'parties de la la generation,' and from the front her dissected womb. The final folding illustration is of a similar sort, two figures of which the lower seems a curiously relaxed classical nude with impeccable hair, her child just born and resting on her lap, the umbilical cord still uncut. Womb and child are in the open dissection. At the mother's feet is a debris of placenta and cords as if they have not yet been cleared from last night's party" (Franklin, Early Colour Printing pp. 47-48). Choulant-Frank p.272; NLM/Blake 169; Sappol, Dream Anatomy p.114. VERY RARE (not in Garrison-Morton, Osler Waller, Wellcome, Heirs of Hippocrates, Norman, etc.).
[Bound with:]
Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossesse et l'accouchement de tout le corps humain. Paris: Demonville, 1778. 10 color mezzotints by Gautier père, mounted on extended guards and folded, each signed and dated in the plate, plates 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8 joined together to four large folding plate, depicting a male body, a female body, a pregnant woman, and a woman in labor. Second edition.
Exposition anatomique des maux vénériens, sur les parties de l'homme de de la femme Paris: Brunet and Demonville, 1773. 8 color mezzotints by Gautier père, mounted on extended guards and folded, each signed and dated in the plate. Choulant-Frank p.272.
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FIRST EDITION. These three works (see below) are the last large anatomical plates made by Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty. "The Anatomie des Parties de la Géneration begins with tall plates of man and of woman, each formed from two sheets and folding out from the book... These first plates showing muscles, arteries and the nervous system are worked out and tabulated in detail. Behind the man is a ghostly arm and shoulder showing the patterns of veins. Among other adjuncts by his foot is an elegant wine-glass meant to demonstrate the texture of male semen mixed with water 'dans le moment de l'éjaculation'. Anyone may make this experiment, he says encouragingly, and repeat it several times. The female figure is a typical Gautier plate, stripped and dissected but with healthy head and throat, charming classical face and hair in perfect order, standing poised as a dance... In the next folding illustration we find a fair instance of his semi-erotic treatment of a scientific theme--one woman standing in profile, her living head looking back to us above a naked breast; the womb open, with folded figure of a foetus. At her feet and knees, almost in a lesbian attitude, a nude figure finely modeled sits to show the 'parties de la la generation,' and from the front her dissected womb. The final folding illustration is of a similar sort, two figures of which the lower seems a curiously relaxed classical nude with impeccable hair, her child just born and resting on her lap, the umbilical cord still uncut. Womb and child are in the open dissection. At the mother's feet is a debris of placenta and cords as if they have not yet been cleared from last night's party" (Franklin, Early Colour Printing pp. 47-48). Choulant-Frank p.272; NLM/Blake 169; Sappol, Dream Anatomy p.114. VERY RARE (not in Garrison-Morton, Osler Waller, Wellcome, Heirs of Hippocrates, Norman, etc.).
[Bound with:]
Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossesse et l'accouchement de tout le corps humain. Paris: Demonville, 1778. 10 color mezzotints by Gautier père, mounted on extended guards and folded, each signed and dated in the plate, plates 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8 joined together to four large folding plate, depicting a male body, a female body, a pregnant woman, and a woman in labor. Second edition.
Exposition anatomique des maux vénériens, sur les parties de l'homme de de la femme Paris: Brunet and Demonville, 1773. 8 color mezzotints by Gautier père, mounted on extended guards and folded, each signed and dated in the plate. Choulant-Frank p.272.