Sale 2488 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 16, 2018

127 127 c   ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED. Icones ossium foetus humani. Accedit osteogeniae brevis historia. 32 engraved plates by Jan Wandelaer, including 16 duplicates in outline. [4], 162, [2] pages. 4to, 271x212 mm, contemporary 1 / 4 sheep, spine and cover edges quite worn; marginal foxing of text, small stamp of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh on recto of the plates, some plates toned, plate 14 and its outline duplicate dampstained. Leiden: apud Joh. et Herm. Verbeek, 1737 [400/600] first edition of Albinus’s treatise on fetal bones and bone formation, “one of his finest atlases”—Heirs of Hippocrates 830. Choulant-Frank, pages 280-81. 128 c   ANDRY, NICOLAS. L’Orthopédie; ou, L’Art de prévenir et de corriger dans les Enfans les Difformités du Corps. Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 14 plates inVolume 1; extraneous plate inVolume 2. [4], cxviii, 345, [3]; [1], v, [1], 365, [5] pages, including half-title in Volume 1. 2 volumes. 12mo, first volume 163x98 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact, second volume 154x91 mm, early 19th-century 1 / 4 sheep gilt with roan lettering pieces; dampstain in lower outer corner of Volume 1 half-title and title, light offsetting from plates, contents of both volumes otherwise generally clean. 19th-century bookplate of Dr. L.-J. Fournier in second volume. Paris: widow Alix and Lambert & Durand, 1741 [1,500/2,500] first edition . “The first book on orthopedics as a preventive practice, and the work that named the specialty. Andry believed that many of the deformities of adolescence and adult life could be traced to improper postural habits acquired during childhood”—Norman 55. Garrison-Morton 4301. 128 MEDICINE LOTS 127 - 138