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BROWNE, JOHN. Myographia Nova; sive, Musculorum omnium... accuratissima descriptio. 40 full-page engraved anatomical illustrations; folding table.

BROWNE, JOHN. Myographia Nova; sive, Musculorum omnium... accuratissima descriptio. 40 full-page engraved anatomical illustrations; folding table. [20] (of [22]), 88, [4] pages; lacks the frontispiece portrait. Folio, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked; marginal dampstaining and soiling through most of volume, lacks front free endpaper. Later signature of Henry Girle on title. London: John Redmayne, 1684

  • Notes: first edition in latin of Browne's 1681 Compleat Treatise on the Muscles. The text and illustrations are plagiarized from earlier works by Giulio Casserio and William Molins. Russell 106; Wing B5127.

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