Anatomie Des Formes Extérieures Du Corps Humain, A L'Usage Des Peintres Et Des Sculpteurs, Par Le Docteur J. Fau. Avec un Atlas de 24 planches dessinées d'après nature et lithographiées par M. Léveillé, élève de M. Jacob.

Julien Fau

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/7306

Author

Imprint

Paris,: Méquignon-Marvis Fils. Libraire-Éditeur, Rue De L'École De Médecine, No. 3., 1845

Physical Description

xvi, 214, 40 p.; 217 mm. (16mo.)

Contents

[Half-title, t.p., dedic.] - Préface - [Text] - Errata - Table Des Matières - Explication Des Planches [1-24]; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The printer is named on the half-title verso and in the colophon: 'Corbeil, imp. de Crété'.

The work is dedicated by the author to P.N. Gerdy.

Summary Note

The work was published accompanied by an Atlas [catalogued separately].

Provenance

Ordered to be purchased 14 August 1848 (RA Council Minutes, X, 225). However this text volume is not recorded as accompanying the folio 'Atlas' in the 1864 printed library catalogue and may therefore have not been acquired until sometime between 1864 and 1877.

Binding Note

19th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'R.A.', black morocco spine-label lettered 'Anatomie Du Docteur J. Fau'.

Subject

Anatomy
Manuals, French - France - 19th century

Contributors

Méquignon-Marvis Fils, bookseller, publisher
Corbeil, printer
Pierre-Nicolas Gerdy, dedicatee
Jean Baptiste Léveillé, lithographer