[Rarebooks] FS: Browne's MYOGRAPHIA NOVA, 1705 folio, with 42 full-page engraved anatomical plates

[Charles Agvent]

BROWNE, John MYOGRAPHIA NOVA; OR, A GRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE 
MUSCLES IN THE HUMANE BODY, AS THEY ARISE IN DISSECTION...
Thomas Shelmerdine London 1705 Second Edition. Together with a 
philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular 
motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the 
circulation of the blood. Folio (7-3/4" x 12-1/8") bound in recent half 
calf and marbled boards with calf corners and a gilt-ruled spine with 
six raised bands and a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. [8], 
viii, [24], x, 9-186 pages. Illustrated with an engraved portrait and 42 
fine full-page engraved plates. First published in 1681 under the title 
A COMPLEAT TREATISE OF THE MUSCLES. The description of the muscles is 
based on the work of William Molins, and the plates partly on Giulio 
Casserio's TABULA ANATOMICAE. This is a reissue of the 1698 edition with 
a new title page and four additional pages of congratulatory letters. 
HEIRS OF HIPPOCRATES 422 (1681 edition): "John Browne, physician to King 
Charles II, James II, and William III, was primarily a surgeon.... His 
most important contribution was one of the clearest early descriptions 
of cirrhosis of the liver.... In spite of blatant plagiarism, his book 
was widely read ... going through ten editions"; Wellcome, p. 251. OCLC 
locates only three copies worldwide. Margins trimmed close to images but 
not impacting them. Frontispiece portrait a little ragged with short 
tears and old tape repair on verso. Leaf Hh ragged with long repaired 
tear and marginal loss slightly affecting a few words near gutter. Small 
owner signature on title page of Thomas Laurence, Surgeon, dated 1749. 
Very Good in Fine binding.    $3500.00
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