COWPER, WILLIAM.

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COWPER, WILLIAM.
ANATOMIA CORPORUM HUMANORUM CENTUM ET VIGINTI TABULI. Utrecht, Nicolaum Muntendam, 1750. 1 vol. large in-folio. Full period basane, back to nerves. Damaged binding with missing and wet binding, partly detached first cover. As is. Frontispiece, (70 ff.), 120 plates. One of the great anatomy books of the 18th century. This is the second edition of the Latin translation of Guillaume Dundass. The English original appeared in Oxford in 1697 and the first Latin edition in 1739. This edition is composed of a frontispiece and 120 plates, each accompanied by its description, one of which is unnumbered (complement to plate 10), 105 numbered from 1 to 105, 9 numbered from 1 to 9 and 5 at the end numbered from 1 to 5 spread over 4 leaves. Cowper is the author only of the 9 plates of Myology, the first 106 being those of Bidloo found in his 1685 collection entitled Anatomia humani corporis. The edition is augmented by the last 5 plates on the organs of reproduction. Bunet, II, 398. Heavy freckles on five plates. Worm holes in the margins of ten plates.
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