Osteó-graphie; ou, description des os de l'adulte, du foetus, etc. Precedée d'une introduction a l'étude des parties solides du corps Humain

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FIRST EDITION. 4 to. Contemp. boards. (2), xxiv, 24, 56, (2), 126 pp. Sixty-one engraved plates on 60 folding sheets. Minor edge wear to the boards; a very good, crisp copy with the plates in strong impressions. The French anatomist, Pierre Tarin (1725-61), ".was responsible for the section on anatomy in the 'Encyclopédie' of Diderot and is eponymously remembered for the 'valves of Tarin'. This atlas of the skeletal system of the fetus and adult contains many excellent detailed folding plates. Several of these plates were taken from the anatomical atlases of Albinus. Following a lengthy introduction to the study of human anatomy in French, the remainder of the text is presented in Latin and French on opposite pages." (Heirs of Hippocrates 961). A series of nine plates treat the skull and its structures in considerable detail, and a number of long folding plates illustrate the full skeleton. Choulant, p.283. N.L.M. (18th C.), p.445. Blocker Coll., p.384. Not in Waller, Osler, Cushing, Orr, or Reynolds. N° de ref. del artículo 000212

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