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HALLER, Albrecht von.

Iconum anatomicarum quibus praccipuae partes corporis humani delineatac continentur.

Abram Vandenhoeck: Göttingen, 1743.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002652

Eight parts in one volume. Göttingen: Abram Vandenhoeck (fascicules I-IV), Widow of Abram Vandenhoeck (fascicules V-VIII), 1743-1756. Folio (430 x 271 mm). [2], 46; 48; [6], 63 [1]; [2], 46; 52; [8], 71 [1]; [10], 58; [2], 94 pp. Title to each part printed in red and black and with large engraved title-vignette, 47 engraved plates, some folding. Later half calf over marbled boards by Agnes Borck, spine decorated in gilt and with two gilt-lettered morocco labels (minor rubbing to extremities, corners bumped), red-coloured edges, marbled endpapers. Text with light browning and very minor occasional spotting, little marginal dust soiling in places, few text leaves with marginal dampstaining, repairs to gutter of first title-leaf, plates generally brighter and less browned, few plates slightly creased toward fore-margin. A fine copy. ----

Norman 974; Choulant-Frank, pp. 289-90; Heirs of Hippocrates 881; Garrison-Morton 397; Osler 1153; Wailer 4011; Wellcome III, p.198; Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 347-356. - ¬FIRST EDITION, VERY RARE WITH ALL 8 PARTS PRESENT. The book was published in eight fascicules, each with a separate title-page, beginning in 1743 and ending in 1756. "Although nearly ten different engravers prepared plates for the book, the plates are all of high quality and are clear, artistic, and exact renditions of their subject. The plates depict nearly all the arteries of the human body as well as the various organs. There are special plates of the heart, omentum, base of the skull, diaphragm, uterus, and spinal cord" (Heirs of Hippocrates). The complete work contains a total of forty-seven plates by Joel Paul Kaltenhofer (d. 1777), C. J. Rollinus, and others. "The order of the subjects is purely accidental, depending upon the author's occasional necessities of making some accurate dissections of certain organs. Besides the general views of the system of the arteries of the whole body, as given in the last four plates, various other plates represent on a larger scale almost all the arteries of special sites and organs, with the surrounding parts. Then there will further be found special representations of the diaphragm, the spinal cord, the uterus and its appendages, the omentum, the base of the skull, and the heart. This work will always remain the main source of information for accurate anatomic studies, especially of the arteries and the viscera" (Choulant-Frank, p.290).

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