2 Volumes by Anatomical Educators: Alexander Ramsay's Rare and Unusual Demonstrator-Flap Publication 'Anatomy of the Heart, Cranium and Brain' (1813) & Sir William Flower's 'Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body' (1881)
1) RAMSAY, Alexander (1754-1824) 'Anatomy of the Heart, Cranium and Brain Adapted to the Purposes of the Medical and Surgical Practitioner'. Pub. EDINBURGH, Printed by George Ramsay, 1813. Second edition. Collation: Title, [2] leaves, 66pp Title, 15 plates (includes 5 plates with deliberate layering holes). Copy of a Letter and Dedication to Joseph Banks.
Ramsay was a Scottish Anatomist who was renowned for his teaching skills, producing 'flap' publications for the illustration of dissection. The plates are drawn and engraved by him. Coloured by R Scott. Plates VII-XII have sections cut out so as to demonstrate different layers of the brain. Text and plates are very rare although they were designed for students. Ramsay died of a snake bite in 1824.
Quarter leather folder with tie, as issued, much shelf wear from use. 2 unattached string bound book sections, one text and the other plates (plates binding reinforced with tape), some foxing and some tanning, waving.
'Ex Libris HA Dyer MD 1824' (2 tags), (folder: 290x240mm)
2) FLOWER, Sir William Henry (1831-1889) 'Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body.' Pub. LONDON: J&A Churchill, 1881. Third Edition. Collation: Title, pp[3]-10 :: 6 double page plates.
Flower had an illustrious career. He became a member to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1854 and Curator of the Middlesex Hospital Museum. After injury during the Crimean War, he became a Demonstrator in Anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital and Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy. He became Conservator of the Hunterian Museum London, President of the Zoological Society and Director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum. He installed a Statue of Charles Darwin and created a whale room at the Natural History Museum.
Impressed brown buckram with gold embossed title, spine chipping, some foxing and tanning. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica KF Russell (330x250mm)


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

Estimate $600-800