Ventes live - Lot 1089
[Medicine - Anatomy]
Anatomie chirurgicale ou Description exacte des parties du corps humain [...]. Nouvelle édition, entièrement refonduë, & augmentée d'une ostéologie nouvelle. Par A. Petit [...] enrichie d'un grand nombre de figures en taille-douce.
Paris, Wid. Cavelier, 1753
€ 700 / 900
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Description du lot
2 vol., 8vo: lxxi-[1 bl.]-488, vi-538 pp.; 55 pl. (vol. 1: tear in pl. 5 & 28 along the folding line, large tear in pl. 6 touching the engraving; vol. 2: some dampstaining in the first and last corners).
Contemp. mottled calf (some sm. def.), gilt orn. spines with 5 raised bands (joints starting to split, some tiny holes), marbled endpapers, red edges.
Later, revised French edition of "Heelkundige ontleeding" (Leiden 1718) by the Flemish surgeon and obstetrician J. Palfijn (1650-1730), and augmented with a study on bones by the anatomist A. Petit (1722?-1794). Ill. (complete) with 55 engr. pl. (of which some folding) by S. Antoine and J.B. Scotin showing bones, skeletons, muscles. The work deals with splanchnology, osteology, myology, angiology and neurology.
Ref. Blake 336. - BB IV:632:P-88. - Lindeboom 1495. - BnF. - COPAC. - Not in Wellcome.