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DELSENBACH, Johann Adam.

Kurtzer Begriff der Anatomie worinnen hauptsächlich die nöthigsten Stücke der Osteologie und Myologie in XIX. Kupfer Tabellen enthalten. .

Nürnberg: Lorenz Bieling for the author, 1733.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002639

Large folio (424 x 305 mm). 6 nn. leaves and 19 engraved copper plates. Folio. Recent three-quarter maroon, spine titled in gilt, new endpapers, bumping to lower corners. Internally crips and clean with very minor age-toning and occasional finger-soiling, single small worm hole in blank margin, final plate with closed horizontal tear through entire plate, but without loss of image (backed with paper on verso). Fine copy. ----

NLM/Blake p.114; Waller 2350. - FIRST EDITION of an anatomical work mainly intended for physicians and artists with explanations for specific muscles and bones. It was edited by Johann Adam Delsenbach (1687-1765), an engraver who worked in Nuremberg for most of his life, and includes an introduction by Christoph Jacob Treu. The engravings are of high quality and executed much in the style of Vesalius. The work is quite rare with no copy at auction in the past 25 years.

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