1846 German Edition of Johann Heinrich Oesterreicher's 'Anatomical Engravings' using the Stone Lithography technique, with Supplement completed by MP Erdl
'OESTERREICHER, Johann Heinrich (1805-1843) and ERDL, M.P. (1815-1848) 'Dr H. Oesterreicher's Anatomische Steinstiche oder Bildliche darstellung des menschlichen körpers sowie seiner theile,' nebst supplementband, enthaltend die zur zweiten auflage neu hinzugekommenen tafeln von MP Erdl, doctor der philosophie und medicin, ordentlichem professor der phisiologie und vergleichenden anatomie an der koeniglichen Ludwigs-Maximilians-Unviversitat, adjuncten der anatomischen ammlung des staates und mitglied der koenigl. bayer. Academie der wissenschaften. München, 1846 verlag von J.Palm's Hofbuchhandlung.
'Dr. H. Oesterreicher's 'Anatomical Engravings or Pictorial Representations of the Human Body and its Parts.' together with a supplementary volume containing the plates newly added to the second edition by MP Erdl, Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal Ludwig Maximilian University, Adjunct of the State Anatomical Collection and Member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Munich, 1846, published by J. Palm's Court Bookstore.
Pub. MUNICH: J. Palm's Court Bookstore, 1846. 198 plates (2 endpapers, 2 title pages, 198 plates, 2 endpapers) This volume is the 1846 Extended Edition containing Heinrich Oesterreicher's stone engravings with Elbe's Additions to complete the work. Limited text and diagram notes in German.
Oesterreicher himself drew and stone engraved a portion of the plates, nearly 90, and several in outline, from about 1825 onwards; they were published in Munich in 1830 as "anatomical engravings...". Around 1840, the stone plates came into the possession of Palm's bookshop, which commissioned one of the leading anatomists at the University of Munich, M. Erdl, to revise, correct, and complete the work. Many new plates were created, others were added. Oesterreicher was a physician and professor at the Surgical School in Landshut, Germany. He died in the St Georgen Madhouse in Bayreuth from 'megalomania' (delusion).
Leather spine with green marbled boards, scuffed and marks, marbled endpapers, insect bites to initial and end page, heavy foxing on some pages, water stain to top edge on many plates (Heft XIV T(Tafel) 3u4 until Heft Vi T1u2), some tanning on end pages. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell. (400x530mm)


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

Estimate $300-400