MYOGRAPHIA NOVA: OR, A GRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE MUSCLES IN THE HUMANE BODY, AS THEY ARISE IN DISSECTION: DISTRIBUTED INTO SIX LECTURES. At the Entrance into which, Are Demonstrated the proper Muscles belonging to each Lecture, now in General Use at the Theatre in Chirurgeons-Hall, London, and illustrated with two and forty copper-plates accurately Engraven after the Life, not only with their Names, but their Uses, fairly delineated on each Plate, as much as can be exprest by Figures; with an Explanation of their Names throughout the whole Discourse: As also their Originations, Insertions, and Uses, at large, in their proper Descriptions, and various useful Annotations, and curious Observations both of the Author's, and other Modern

ANATOMY - BROWNE, JOHN.

Edité par Sold by Thomas Sheldermine, at the Rose-Tree in Little-Britain, London., 1705

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Folio. 8 x 12 inches. frontis. + [8] + viii + [22] + x + 9-186 pp. [4], a-b2, [11], B-C2, d, D-2U1, 2X-3B2. (ESTC calls for 24 unnumbered pages between preface and treatise but we have not had the chance to compare with another copy). Illustrated by portrait frontispiece and [42] engraved plates. Includes dedications to William III and Earl of Sunderland, printing privilege, preface, 8 letters and poems of commendation list of subscribers and a Treatise on Muscular Dissection by Dr Bernard Connor at beginning; and Mathematical Disquisitions concerning Muscular Motion and An Appendix of the Heart and its Use: with the circulation of the blood and index at the end. Bound in modern half calf with marbled boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and double gilt lines, with black morocco labels. Some browning and occasional stains and small edge tears, otherwise a fine crisp copy. Calligraphic inscription of William Kemp, 1742 on 2nd free endpaper and abbreviated form of name on title page, with previous inscription inked out. An influential treatise on muscular dissection, based on six lectures which may have been delivered in the Surgeon's Hall. It is illustrated by a superb collection of plates, many of them full page. The work was first published in 1681 as 'A Compleat Treatise of the Muscles' and the second enlarged edition in 1698. ESTC records only one copy of this 1705 reprint in a British library (Cambridge) and one in the USA. It is stated that the description of the muscles is based on Muskotomia by Willaim Molins (1648) and the plates partly taken from Tabula Anatomica by Giulio Casserio (1632 edition). John Browne (1642-1702/3?) came from Norwich and gained surgical experience in London and in the navy, being wounded in the Anglo-Dutch war of 1665-67. About 1675 he was appointed surgeon-in-ordinary to Charles II and surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital in 1683. He published other works on medicine, including the first recorded description of cirrhosis of the liver (1685) and the best surviving account of touching for the king's evil (1684). NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE MEDICINE 18TH CENTURY MEDICINE ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE- NON-FICTION NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE.

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• Titre: MYOGRAPHIA NOVA: OR, A GRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE MUSCLES IN THE HUMANE BODY, AS THEY ARISE IN DISSECTION: DISTRIBUTED INTO SIX LECTURES. At the Entrance into which, Are Demonstrated the proper Muscles belonging to each Lecture, now in General Use at the Theatre in Chirurgeons-Hall, London, and illustrated with two and forty copper-plates accurately Engraven after the Life, not only with their Names, but their Uses, fairly delineated on each Plate, as much as can be exprest by Figures; ...
• Éditeur: Sold by Thomas Sheldermine, at the Rose-Tree in Little-Britain, London.
• Date de parution: 1705
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good