Live auction - Lot 682
[Medicine - Anatomy]
4 anatomical plates.
Nancy, J. B. H. Leclerc, 1773
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Hand-coloured mezzotint, 48 x 32,5 cm, signed at lower left.
Under gilt frame (not studied outside frame)
Four illustrated plates from Gautier Dagoty's "Cours Complet d'anatomie", published in 1773, which served as the best illustrated manual for generations of French doctors to come. Included are pl. 275, 258, 284, 285 showing the circulatory system and blood vessels.
Ref. Blake 169. - Wellcome III:97. - Anatomie de la couleur, nos. 121-25.