PALFIJN, Jan - Anatomie chirurgicale ou Description exacte des parties du corps humain [...]. Nouvelle édition, entièrement refonduë, & augmentée d'une ostéologie nouvelle. Par A. Petit [...] enrichie d'un grand nombre de figures en taille-douce.

Description: 2 vol., 8vo: lxxi-[1 bl.]-488, vi-538 pp.; 55 pl. (vol. 1: tear in pl. 5 & 28 along the folding line, large tear in pl. 6 touching the engraving; vol. 2: some dampstaining in the first and last corners). - Later, revised French edition of "Heelkundige ontleeding" (Leiden 1718) by the Flemish surgeon and obstetrician J. Palfijn (1650-1730), and augmented with a study on bones by the anatomist A. Petit (1722?-1794). Ill. (complete) with 55 engr. pl. (of which some folding) by S. Antoine and J.B. Scotin showing bones, skeletons, muscles. The work deals with splanchnology, osteology, myology, angiology and neurology. - Ref. Blake 336. - BB IV:632:P-88. - Lindeboom 1495. - BnF. - COPAC. - Not in Wellcome.
Artist Name: PALFIJN, Jan Circa: 1753

Condition: Contemp. mottled calf (some sm. def.), gilt orn. spines with 5 raised bands (joints starting to split, some tiny holes), marbled endpapers, red edges.