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INNES, John (1739-1777). Eight Anatomical Tables of the Human Body; containing the Principal Parts of the Skeletons and Muscles represented in large Tables of Albinus, to which are added concise explanations. Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour and Smellie for J. Murray, London, etc., 1776.
4o (202 x 148 mm). 8 engraved plates by Thomas Donaldson. (Title-page detached, N2 with small tear affecting a few letters, some offsetting to text from plates, some spotting and staining.) Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine (some wear, especially at joints and edges). Provenance: Sion College Library (manuscript notation on verso of front free endpaper, library stamp and deaccession stamp on verso of title-page).
FIRST EDITION. NLM/Blake p.229; Wellcome III,p.330.
[With:]
DISDIER, François-Michel (1708-1781). Exposition exacte ou tableaux anatomiques... Paris: Crepy, 1778.
2o (380 x 245 mm). Engraved title-page and 29 engraved plates by Charpentier and others (some dampstaining, title-page with some soiling). Modern half calf.
Second edition of an anatomical atlas in which both the plates and the text are entirely engraved, rather than the usual practice of engraving the plates and setting the text in type. The engraving was done by Etienne Charpenter who is described on the title page as engraver anatomist. Disdier was both a professor of surgery and a drawing master at the Academy of Painting in Paris. He received his degree in surgery at the Royal College of Surgery in Paris in 1750. The first edition of Disdier's atlas was published in 1758. Mathias-Duval & Cuyer, Histoire de l'Anatomie Plastique (1898) p. 194. (2)
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FIRST EDITION. NLM/Blake p.229; Wellcome III,p.330.
[With:]
DISDIER, François-Michel (1708-1781). Exposition exacte ou tableaux anatomiques... Paris: Crepy, 1778.
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Second edition of an anatomical atlas in which both the plates and the text are entirely engraved, rather than the usual practice of engraving the plates and setting the text in type. The engraving was done by Etienne Charpenter who is described on the title page as engraver anatomist. Disdier was both a professor of surgery and a drawing master at the Academy of Painting in Paris. He received his degree in surgery at the Royal College of Surgery in Paris in 1750. The first edition of Disdier's atlas was published in 1758. Mathias-Duval & Cuyer, Histoire de l'Anatomie Plastique (1898) p. 194. (2)