The Explanation Of Albinus's Anatomical Figures Of The Human Skeleton And Muscles. With an Historical Account of the Work. Translated From The Latin. To Which Is Added The Explanation of the Supplement to Albinus, Containing A Compleat Anatomical Description of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves, and the External Parts of the Human Body. The Figures of Albinus, and the Supplement, are curiously engrav'd on Fifty-One large Copper-Plates, Fifteen Inches by Twenty-Two.
[Tabulae Sceleti Et Musculorum Corporis Humani., English., 1754.]
Variant Title
Tabulae Sceleti Et Musculorum Corporis Humani
Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves
Books printed for John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street
Imprint
London:: Printed for John and Paul Knapton., M.D.CCLIV.
Physical Description
xxiv, 332, 106, [2] p.; 265 mm. (Quarto).
Contents
The text is followed by a 2-page advertisement, 'Books printed for John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street' (n.d.).
Summary Note
Although the title-page refers to copper-plates, the book contains printed text only. The plates were printed in the Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body (1749) (40 plates) and A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves (1750) (eleven plates). 'The Explanation of the Supplement ... Containing A Compleat Anatomical Description ...' has its own title-page, reading, 'A Compleat System Of The Blood-Vessels And Nerves, Taken From Albinus's Edition of Eustachius ...' and having the same imprint as the main title-page.
Provenance
Perhaps acquired between 1801 and 1802 (RAA CM III, 110). Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
18th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; rebacked and recornered in 1991 by A. Wessely, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Albinus's Anatomical Figures'.