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ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani. Leiden: Johan and Herman Verbeek, 1747.
Broadsheets (681 x 505 mm). Engraved title vignette, engraved dedication and 40 engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar including 12 outline plates (engraved title torn and laid down, plate III torn and repaired.) Modern quarter calf.
FIRST EDITION. "AMONG THE MOST ARTISTICALLY PERFECT OF ANATOMICAL ATLASES... Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illusion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoceros, sketched by Wandelaar from the first living specimen in Europe, which had arrived at Amsterdam zoo in 1741" (Norman). Choulant pp. 276-283; Garrison-Morton 399; Heirs of Hippocrates 831; Wellcome II, p. 26; Norman 29.
Broadsheets (681 x 505 mm). Engraved title vignette, engraved dedication and 40 engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar including 12 outline plates (engraved title torn and laid down, plate III torn and repaired.) Modern quarter calf.
FIRST EDITION. "AMONG THE MOST ARTISTICALLY PERFECT OF ANATOMICAL ATLASES... Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illusion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoceros, sketched by Wandelaar from the first living specimen in Europe, which had arrived at Amsterdam zoo in 1741" (Norman). Choulant pp. 276-283; Garrison-Morton 399; Heirs of Hippocrates 831; Wellcome II, p. 26; Norman 29.