Albinus. 1737. Treatise on fetal bones.
First edition with 32 plates
ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried.
Icones ossium foetus humani. Accedit osteogeniæ brevis historia.
Leyde, Johann et Hermann Verbeek, 1737.
1100 €
4to (25,4x19,4 cm), (4)-162-(2) pages and 32 plates.
binding: Contemporary full stiff vellum, blind centerpiece.
Browning. Binding soiled, first cover rubbed, tail of spine worn.
"Albinus is particularly remembered for his descriptions of the bones, and this first edition of his treatise on fetal bones is one of his finest atlases. All of the fetal bones are illustrated with great detail and are finely lined in the sixteen plates and sixteen line drawings, but in no place is the total skeleton depicted. At the end of his preface, Albinus promises to see to it that only good prints are published and that the plates are not given away to anybody, to prevent the making of inferior prints for the sake of pecuniary gain." (Heirs of Hippocrates)
"Different bones are reproduced with an unsurpassed fidelity and delicatecy" (Choulant)
First edition of this classic work on osteology.
references: Heirs oh Hippocrates [830], Choulant [p.280].
