POLE, Thomas. The Anatomical Instructor: or an Illustration of the Modern and Most Approved Methods of Preparing and Preserving the Different parts of the Human Body, and of Quadrupeds by Injection, Corrosian, Maceration, Distention, Articulation, Modelling &c.
Pub. LONDON; Printed by Couchman and Fry and sold by the author No. 11 Talbert-Court, Gracechurch-Street and by W Darton and Co No.55 Gracechurch-Street, MDCCXC (1780). Title, pp.[V]-lxxx, [6] leaves, 304pp, [8] leaves :: 19 plates. Last two leaves are Errata, Directions to the binder.
An excellent account of the preparation of dissection etc. for muscular use. Pole was a Quaker who practised in London and then in Bristol. Russell British Anatomy 665, ESTC T114732.
Bound in quarter leather on marbled boards which are in poor condition with losses to corners, soiled and rubbed. Front hinge loose. Text block top dusted, while the contents are very clean with only the occasional mark or soiling. Minor offsetting of plates, while the folding plates (2) reveal some handling. Previous owners signatures of Dr James Hamilton Jnr, Richard James Berry, Edward Arthur Ford. James Hamilton Jnr. was professor of midwifery in Edinburgh, d.1839. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell. (210x125mm)


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