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Title: Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body Author: Albinus, Bernard Siegfried Place: London Publisher: H. Woodfall for John and Paul Knapton Date: 1749 Description: [47] text leaves (including copper-engraved title with vignette) + 26 outline plates (many containing several figure drawings). Decorative plates not present. (Double Elephant Folio) 28x20, contents mostly loose laid inside later cloth. First English Edition. Albinus’ important and groundbreaking atlas of the human body was first published in Leiden two years earlier. This copy lacks the rare decorative plates. Albinus employed the services of artist Jan Wandelaar in an attempt to combine the science of anatomy with imaginative and mythological backgrounds. The title page vignette shows an anatomist dissecting a satyr (with another lying in waiting) on a hilly graveyard setting with ghosts and a tomb present, plus medical books in the foreground. Complete / intact copies with all the original plates are nearly impossible to find. Formerly in the John Crerar Library, Chicago, with their bookplate and various markings (rubberstamps, etc.), title page with a perforated stamp on blank portion at the top. Lot Amendments Condition: General wear; front board detached, splits with loose pieces to cloth spine; small chips and tears to page edges, some soiling; internally mostly very good; binding in need of repair. Item number: 178992