Three C19th Volumes on Health and General Anatomy by Pierre Beclard (1830), John Abernathy (1821) and James Johnson (1837)
1) BÉCLARD, Pierre Augustin (1785-1825) 'Elements of General Anatomy: translated from the last edition of the French of P.A. Béclard, Professor of Anatomy to the Faculty of Medicine in Paris.
Pub. EDINBURGH: MacLachlan and Stewart 1830. Printed by A. Balfour & Co Niddry Street 1830, with notes and corrections by Robert Knox M.D. FRSE Lecturer of Anatomy, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, and Conservator of its Museum. 24p, 399pp.
Béclard was Professor of Anatomy in Paris and Chief Surgeon at Pitie Hospital.
Medium brown full leather cover with impressed 'Original School of Anatomy Medicine and Surgery Peter Street Dublin, Premium' name & detail, with gold embossed border, marbled endpapers & edging; Foxing & tanning, particularly to endpages, shelf wear, rubbed spine.
Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica KF Russell (135x220mm)

2) ABERNATHY, John (1764-1831) 'Physiological Lectures addressed to The College of Surgeons' including 'An Enquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life, being the subject of the first two anatomical lectures delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of London in the year 1814'.
Pub. LONDON: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row 1821, A New Edition, Printers: A&R Spottiswoode, New Street Square, 75pp.
Abernathy was an English surgeon, anatomist and one of the founders of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. An eccentric practitioner, his interest was aneurysms and diet's role for health.
Pale blue board cover with reinforced spine, flecking and marked, well loved, worn cover and page edges, Foxing and tanning especially to end pages, some waving, creasing and moisture marks, advertisements to front.
Dedication Sir Joseph Banks. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell, Henry Kimpton Bookseller tag (140x235mm)
3) JOHNSON, James (1777-1845) 'Economy of Health or the Stream of Human Life, from the cradle to the grave with Reflections Moral Physical and Philosophical on the Successive Phases of Human Existence, The Maladies to which they are subject, and the dangers that may be averted'.
LONDON: S. Highley, 32 Fleet St, 1837, 2nd edition enlarged and improved, printed by F. Hayden, Little College Street, Westminster pp232.
Johnson was a naval surgeon who wrote mainly on tropical diseases.
Grey papered board cover, loose binding, flaking cover, some foxing mainly to the cover, tanning, shelf wear, 'Alfred Belbrough 1837' and another owner penned to end paper. K.F. Russell tag (140x225mm)



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

Estimate $150-200