BROWNE, John. A Compleat Treatise of the Muscles, as they Appear in Humane Body, and Arise in Dissection: with Diverse Anatomical Observations Not yet Discover'd : illustrated by near Forty Copper-Plates Accurately Delineated and Engraven.
Pub. LONDON: Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings-Arms in the Poultry. 1683. Collation, brief… Portrait (by R. White) title, [14] leaves, 212pp (lacks last leaf) :: 35 of 37 plates (lacks 9 & 12) Illustrations. Also missing plate explanation leaves for 13 & 17. Full collation, by Russell available on request.
Very rare second edition of Browne's book, made up from sheets of the first with new title.
'This work was a complete plagiarism and … is an almost verbatim copy of Molins' description of muscles with the plates modified from Casserio. The book went through a number of editions in English and was translated into Latin and German.' (Russell, British Anatomy 101)
'This is a re-issue of the sheets of the 1681 edition with a new title. It is entered in the Term Catalogues under Easter Term, May 1683. Colin Richardson in his catalogue 148, 1965 lists a copy which has pp. 47/48 and 59/60 in two states, one bearing more text in each case, the other intended to be cancelled. RCP has a copy of the 1681 editon which has both cancelland and cancel leaves of pp. 47/48 and 59/60. Another copy contains cancels for pp. 47/48 and 59/60; p. 47 being a combination of pp. 47 and 61 of the 1683 edition, pp. 61/62 having been cancelled. KFR copies of the 1681 and 1683 editions have pp. 61/62 cancelled and removed, the catchword on p. 60 being correct for p. 63. In both copies pp. 47/48 are on a cancel leaf, but pp. 59/60 are on the cancelland. Leaf Ff is paged 115/114. NYAM has a copy with the cancel leaf paged 113/114 replacing the cancelland.' (Russell, British Anatomy 102).
Bound in full leather boards with replaced spine. Page margins reveal soiling and handling, and dusting to the text block. Binding holding. Overall good for age. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell. (320x195mm)
Estimate $2,000-4,000