Volume 1 and 2 French Editions of Cesar VERDIER's 1765 'Abreg de l'anatomie du corpe humani' on Human Anatomy
Verdier (1685-1759) was a prosector in anatomy at Ecole de Chirurgie in Paris. 'Abreg de l'anatomie du corpe humani. Ou l'ou donne une description courte and exacte des parties qui le composent, auec leurs usages' (Abridged Anatomy of the Human Body. Containing a short and accurate description of its component parts, with their uses)
Both pub. BRUXELLES : Che 2 Jean Leonard Imprimeurs Libraire, Rue de la Cour, MDCCLXV, 1765. Collation: Vol 1. Title, pp iii-iv, 316pp. [1] leaf 163x97mm. Vol 2. Title, 435pp.[1] leaf. NB: p435 given as 235.
Both bound in matching brown leather with marbled endpapers. Some leather bleeding, minor foxing and tanning. Vol 2 has first endpaper loose.
Stamps of St Georges Hospital Library and inscription "Presented by Sir Everard Home Bart. Oct. 1815". During the first world war St George's sold a large part of their Library stored in a basement so that it could be used as an air-raid shelter, the books were sold for one shilling each! Osler is said to have taken away six hansom cabs loads.
Many were also purchased by Frederic Wood Jones. Owners: St George's Hospital Library, Sir Everard Home.
Frederic Wood Jones. Bookplate : Ex Libris Anatomica KF Russell & 'E71' (both 163x97mm)


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

Estimate $150-200