[Rarebooks] FS: Browne on the Muscles, 1705, with fine full-page engraved plates

[Charles Agvent]

BROWNE, John. MYOGRAPHIA NOVA; OR, A GRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE 
MUSCLES IN THE HUMANE BODY, AS THEY ARISE IN DISSECTION... London: 
Thomas Shelmerdine, 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 additonal 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.         $3,500.00

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