Le corps humain structure et fonctions [...] planches coloriées, découpées et superposéés [...].

Paris, J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1879

€ 120 / 150

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Lot description

4to: 27 pl. (spotting and staining throughout).

Contemp. purple percaline, gilt-titled front cover, flat spine (extremities sl. rubbed, head and tail sl. def., joints splitting).

Rare first edition. Anatomical atlas only with 27 colour lithographed plates with superposed and cut out items showing the human body from the inside: the brain, the 6 senses, limbs, the muscles, the head, the genital organs, etc.
Ref. BnF. - Not in Wellcome, nor Blake.