Live auction - Lot 1200
[Medicine - Anatomy]
Anatomie élémentaire en vingt planches, représentant chacune un sujet dans son entier à la proportion de demi-nature [...]. Nouvelle édition.
Brussels, Meline, Cans et compagnie, 1854
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
Elephant folio; 18 (of 20) pl. (pl. 9 and 20 missing; tears, most strengthened, one long tear reinforced in pl. 11, dusty, some marg. damp stains).
Black buckram cardboard (very soiled, cloth part. missing and detached from spine).
Atlas only with 18 coloured lithogr. anatomical plates "à la proportion demi-nature et quelquefois de grandeur naturelle" by the French painter and lithographer N.H. Jacob (1782-1871). Being a part of the rare work by the French medical doctor J.-M. Bourgery (1797-1849). The plates were meant to be used in medical schools and hospitals and are often in a used state.
Prov. "Dr Ide, Anvers" (gilt-st. on front board).