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COLLINS, Samuel (1618-1710). A systeme of Anatomy, treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants. London: Thomas Newcomb, 1685.
2 volumes, 2o (370 x 248 mm). Titles printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece of the Theatrum Cutlerianum, portrait of Collins by Willam Faithorne (1616-1691) mounted on verso (according to Russell some copies have these printed on the recto and verso of a single leaf) in first volume; 73 engraved plates in second volume (some copies contain an additional plate inserted between pp. 934-935 in vol. 2, not present in this copy). (Some very pale and minor marginal dampstaining at end of vol. 1.) Late 17th- or early 18th-century English red morocco, covers gilt with three panels, the outer a double fillet, the middle panel a single fillet with floral and foliate tools at corners and at center of each side, the inner panel a roll within a triple fillet with floral and foliate tools at center of each side, spines in seven compartments with six raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, a repeated gilt-tooled panel in the rest, edges gilt (joints and extremities rubbed, a few scrapes). Provenance: Thomas Caren (armorial bookplate in each volume).
FIRST EDITION of "the most elaborate English treatise on comparative anatomy of its day, dealing at length with the anatomical structures of man an 115 other animal species" (Norman). A VERY FINE SET. Cole, Comparative anatomy, pp. 156-74; NLM/Krivatsy 2610; Russell 194; Wellcome II, p. 373; Wing C-5387; Norman 498. (2)
2 volumes, 2o (370 x 248 mm). Titles printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece of the Theatrum Cutlerianum, portrait of Collins by Willam Faithorne (1616-1691) mounted on verso (according to Russell some copies have these printed on the recto and verso of a single leaf) in first volume; 73 engraved plates in second volume (some copies contain an additional plate inserted between pp. 934-935 in vol. 2, not present in this copy). (Some very pale and minor marginal dampstaining at end of vol. 1.) Late 17th- or early 18th-century English red morocco, covers gilt with three panels, the outer a double fillet, the middle panel a single fillet with floral and foliate tools at corners and at center of each side, the inner panel a roll within a triple fillet with floral and foliate tools at center of each side, spines in seven compartments with six raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, a repeated gilt-tooled panel in the rest, edges gilt (joints and extremities rubbed, a few scrapes). Provenance: Thomas Caren (armorial bookplate in each volume).
FIRST EDITION of "the most elaborate English treatise on comparative anatomy of its day, dealing at length with the anatomical structures of man an 115 other animal species" (Norman). A VERY FINE SET. Cole, Comparative anatomy, pp. 156-74; NLM/Krivatsy 2610; Russell 194; Wellcome II, p. 373; Wing C-5387; Norman 498. (2)