2 Anatomical Volumes by John Gottlieb Walter on Nerves (1819) & Henry Savage on Female Pelvic Organs (1870)
1) WALTER, John Gottlieb (1734-1818) 'Plates of the Thoracic and Abdominal Nerves, reduced from the original, as published by Order of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin; accompanied by coloured explanations and a description of the par vagum, great sympathetic and phrenic nerves'. Pub. LONDON: Printed for Burges and Hill, Medical and General Booksellers, 1819. Collation: Half title, title, pp [v]-vii, 50pp, [1] leaf adverts 4 plates, 4 outline plates.
Walter was an anatomist who held the Chair of Anatomy at Frankfurt am Main. His diagrams are very detailed.
Quarter leather with marbled boards, some heavy foxing with tanning, marks, shelf wear.
Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica KF Russell, ex Middlesex Hospital Library stamped throughout, (272x205mm)
2) SAVAGE, Henry (1810-1900) 'The Surgery, Surgical Pathology and Surgical Anatomy of the Female Pelvic Organs in a series of coloured plates taken from nature with commentaries, notes and cases'. Pub. LONDON: John Churchill and Sons 1870. Second edition. Half title, title, 2 leaves, 36 leaves (explanations of plates) :: 16 coloured plated.
The plates are drawn by JB Leveille. Savage was a gynaecologist and a consulting medical officer at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children.
Brown buckram with gold embossed title, spine compromised, shelf wear, foxing and tanning.
KF Russell tag (310x240mm)



PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $400-600