COWPER (William) Myotomia Reformata : or... - Lot 850 - Briscadieu

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COWPER (William) Myotomia Reformata : or... - Lot 850 - Briscadieu
COWPER (William) Myotomia Reformata : or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body. London, Knaplock, a Innys, ; Tonson, 1724. Large in folio: 6f, LXXVII (introduction), 194pp; illustrated with a frontispiece, a double-page table, 66 plates out of text and figures in text (diagrams, vignettes, lamp-heads, engraved letters) of great realism. ½ modern midnight blue morocco, gilt fleurons and fillets on spine, red title page, blue percaline boards, red edges. This atlas is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful anatomy books of the 18th century concerning the study of the anatomy of the muscles of the human body; some plates were engraved after Raphael and Rubens. Provenance: Super-libris Birmingham Medical Insitute.
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