LYSER, Michael. The Art of Dissecting the Human Body, in a Plain, Easy and Compendious Method.
With the several instruments necessary, curiously engraved; wherein all the different Parts of the Human Body are described, but particularly the muscles, in a full and accurate Manner, and their Uses clearly explained. Translated from the Latin of Lyserus. By. G. Thomson, M. D.
Pub. LONDON: Printed by Joseph Davidson, at the Angel in the Poultry. MDCCXL [1740].
'Lyser's Culter Anatomicus, first published in Copenhagen in 1653, was one of the forbears of the modern dissecting manual. An abridged translation into English is in LE CLERC, D and MAGNET, J.J. Bibliotheca anatomica, medica, chirurgica etc. containing a description of the several parts of the body... London, 1711, 1712, 1714 (see 524), volume 2, pp.1-62. The Latin version appears in the 1685 and 1699 editions of Bibliotheca anatomica.' (Russell British Anatomy 554) Russell further writes.. 'this translation by Thomson is an extraordinarily rare book for no obvious reason.' (private catalogue).
'There is no copy in the British Museum and the copy in the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, lacks one plate. There is no copy in the Hunterian Library, Glasgow or in the Cushing Library.'
Collation, 8° A6 B-S8 T2 ($1-4 signed) 144 leaves; pp. [2] iii-xii 1-276. Three plates.
Bound in full leather, with a later spine, aged. Foxed title precedes a fairly clean text with a modicum of foxing and marks. Plates more marked and soiled, refer to images. Book label for Frederick Wood Jones, bookplate for K.F. Russell. (200x124mm)


Estimate $600-1,000