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TARIN, Pierre (1725-1761). Dictionaire anatomique suivi d'une bibliotheque anatomique et physiologique. Paris: Briasson, 1753.
4o (253 x 194 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title. (Wormtrack near gutter margin occasionally catching letters, some pale spotting.) Bound for Béatrice de Choiseul-Stainville, Duchesse de Gramont: contemporary black morocco gilt, triple gilt fillets on sides, large arms of the Duchesse at center, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, edges gilt. Provenance: Béatrice de Choiseul-Stanville, Duchesse de Gramont (1730-1794, binding).
FIRST EDITION of an eighteenth-century bibliography of anatomy which has escaped the notice of bibliographers from Peignot to Garrison-Morton. There is a copy in the Bibliotheca Walleriana (no. 9,488), perhaps because it is preceded, and consequently is concealed somewhat, by a vocabulary of anatomical terminology. Tarin, who published "a number of valuable works" (Hirsch) on anatomy, and contributed articles to Diderot's Encyclopédie, based his Bibliothèque on Haller's edition of Boerhave's Methodus studii medici, 1751 (preceding Haller's Bibliotheca anatomica, 1774-1777); he was assisted by Abbé Claude Sallier, one of the compilers of the Catalogue de la Bibliothèque Royale, the physician and book collector Camille Falconet, and Abbé Desmarets.
WITH A FINE CONTEMPORARY PROVENANCE: The Duchesse de Gramont, "haughty and imperious" sister of the Duc de Choiseul, minister of Louis XV, on whom she had a considerable influence, in 1759 married Duc Antoine-Antonin de Gramont; one of the noble "femmes bibliophiles" of the Ancien Régime, she died on the guillotine, while her husband escaped the Terror. Her books were sold in 1797, according to Guigard, but no copy of the sale catalogue is recorded in the B.N. or Grolier Club. Bauchard praises the simple elegance and technical excellence of the bindings of her library. Waller 9488.
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FIRST EDITION of an eighteenth-century bibliography of anatomy which has escaped the notice of bibliographers from Peignot to Garrison-Morton. There is a copy in the Bibliotheca Walleriana (no. 9,488), perhaps because it is preceded, and consequently is concealed somewhat, by a vocabulary of anatomical terminology. Tarin, who published "a number of valuable works" (Hirsch) on anatomy, and contributed articles to Diderot's Encyclopédie, based his Bibliothèque on Haller's edition of Boerhave's Methodus studii medici, 1751 (preceding Haller's Bibliotheca anatomica, 1774-1777); he was assisted by Abbé Claude Sallier, one of the compilers of the Catalogue de la Bibliothèque Royale, the physician and book collector Camille Falconet, and Abbé Desmarets.
WITH A FINE CONTEMPORARY PROVENANCE: The Duchesse de Gramont, "haughty and imperious" sister of the Duc de Choiseul, minister of Louis XV, on whom she had a considerable influence, in 1759 married Duc Antoine-Antonin de Gramont; one of the noble "femmes bibliophiles" of the Ancien Régime, she died on the guillotine, while her husband escaped the Terror. Her books were sold in 1797, according to Guigard, but no copy of the sale catalogue is recorded in the B.N. or Grolier Club. Bauchard praises the simple elegance and technical excellence of the bindings of her library. Waller 9488.