[MANUSCRIPT]. "Abregé de l'anatomie du corps humain, où l'on donne une description courte et exacte des parties qui le composent avec leur usage." France, 1751.

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[MANUSCRIPT]. "Abregé de l'anatomie du corps humain, où l'on donne une description courte et exacte des parties qui le composent avec leur usage." France, 1751.

Two parts in one, 8o (155 x 102 mm). 232; 272 pages. 18th-century French calf, spine gilt (worn at corners and ends of spine). Provenance: Lanselle (bookplate); Otto Orren Fisher (1898-1961, bookplate).

A manuscript copy of the anonymous treatise of the same title which was originally published in Paris, 2 vols, 1734, and later editions. Barbier, Dictionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymes I (1872) attributes authorship of the printed edition to a Paris surgeon, Cesar Verdier (1685-1759). Copies of books like this, probably done by professional scribes, are evidence that production of manuscript books continued to a limited extent in the 18th century.