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BELL, JOHN. Engravings, explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints. 32 etched or engraved plates, 4 of them duplicates in outline. [8], xxii, [2], 191 pages, including engraved additional title and errata leaf. 4to, 260x206 mm, later 19th-century 1/4 calf, spine faded, raised bands rubbed; varying foxing on plates, some toning and soiling of text, additional title and about a quarter of the plates dampstained, upper and lower margins cropped on plate facing page 102, scattered contemporary marginalia, including notes on blank page facing 4 of the plates, blank upper outer corner of letterpress title crudely restored. Edinburgh: John Paterson for Bell and Bradfute et al., 1794
first edition. "Bell's atlas of the bones, muscles, and joints, illustrated mostly with his own engravings and etchings after his own paintings, represented a new, more realistic and less idealized style of anatomical illustration"--Edell Sale 125. Heirs of Hippocrates 1197; Russell (1963) 60.
