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TIEDEMANN, Friedrich.

Tabulae arteriarum corporis humani. Abb. d. Pulsadern des menschlichen Körpers. Nebst: Erklärungen d. Abb.

Carlsruhe: ex officina Christiani Friderici Müller, 1822.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. Very Good. Item #101620

3 Volumes comprising two volumes of tables, double elephant folio (717 x 531 mm), and one volume of text printed in German and Latin, 8vo (220 x 170 mm). xv [1], 379 [1] pp.; atlas volumes with 38 hand-coloured lithographic plates, each accompanied by a facing outline plate (vol. I, plates I to XVIII; vol. II plates XIX to XXXVIII). Atlases bound in contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards (rubbed and chipped at extremities), marbled endpapers; text volume bound in contemporary paste paper boards, spine with gilt-lettered paper label (corners bumped, extremities rubbed). Text volume with some scattered foxing, stronger to first and final pages; plate volume with some dust soiling and thumb markings, plate 38 with paper repair to lower margin well outside platemark, text with a few light pencil annotations. Provenance: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (library stamps to titles and some plates); Aerzte Verein Elberfeld (stamp to title of text volume). All in all a very good set. ----

Not in Choulant-Frank. Wellcome V, 270; Heirs of Hippocrates 1370 (atlas) and 1371 (text); Weber, History of Lithography (1966) pp. 39-40. - FIRST EDITION, VERY RARE WITH THE TEXT VOLUME. Tiedemann was a pupil of Soemmerring, and he contributed to anatomy, physiology, and embryology. This large atlas, with plates remarkable for their beauty, accuracy, and originality of presentation, is one of the first works entirely devoted to the arterial system. In all the plates the arteries were hand-colored by the artist J. Roux. Tiedemann's work was also one of the first anatomy atlases produced in Germany using the new method of lithography. Tiedemann's life-size illustrations of the arteries were widely copied in the 19th century on account of their excellence.

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