Swann Galleries - Early Printed & Medical Books - Sale 2395

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ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED.

Historia musculorum hominis.

engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar showing the muscles, tendons, and ligaments of the hand,

4 of them duplicates in outline. 696 pages. 4to, 250x195 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine

ends chipped, front joint cracked, cords intact, cover edges worn through; contents toned

with scattered foxing, small stains on a few plates.

Leiden: (Joannes Wilhelmus de Groot for)

Theodorus Haak & Henricus Mulhovius, 1734

[400/600]

FIRST EDITION

Choulant-Frank, page 280; Norman 28.

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ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED.

Tabulae sceleti et musculorum cor-

poris humani.

40 engraved plates after Jan Wandelaar, including 12 outline duplicates.

[47] leaves. Folio, 659x528 mm, early 19th-century

leather, badly worn, lacking back-

strip, covers detached; mostly marginal foxing, soiling, and minor stains, vertical crease in

some text leaves and plates, Rush Medical College Library stamp on title and 2 other text

leaves, marginal repaired clean tear in text leaf to plate 2, marginal repairs on plate 3/1 not

affecting image, stains in upper margin of text leaf to plate 11.

London: H. Woodfall for John and Paul Knapton, 1749

[3,000/5,000]

FIRST LONDON EDITION

of Albinus’s chief work, “among the most artistically perfect of

anatomical atlases” (Norman), originally published in Leiden in 1747. Russell 5 (this edi-

tion); Choulant-Frank, page 281; Garrison-Morton 399; Norman 29 (original edition).

MEDICAL BOOKS

Lots 306-385

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ARNALDUS DE VILLANOVA.

Opera Omnia.

[6] leaves, 2072 columns,

[22] leaves. Folio, 334x213 mm, contem-

porary vellum boards, lacking ties; occasional

light marginal toning or foxing, few gath-

erings browned, horizontal strip excised

from blank outer margin of title. Rush

Medical College Library bookplate on front

pastedown, their stamp and accession

number on title.

Basel: Conrad Waldkirch, 1585

[2,000/3,000]

Seventh collected edition of the writings of the

Catalan physician and polymath (d. 1311),

“one of the most extraordinary personalities of

mediaeval times” (Sarton). Durling 310; Palau

365385; Sarton II, 893-900.

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