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BROWNE, JOHN. Myographia Nova; or, A Graphical Description of All the Muscles in the Humane Body, as they arise in Dissection. 41 (of 42) engraved plates; lacks plate 2. [10], viii, [24], x, 9-186 pages, including frontispiece portrait of the author. Folio, 309x198 mm, modern 1/4 morocco gilt; contents toned with occasional marginal soiling, early inscriptions on portrait and title, dampstaining in blank upper margin of a few text leaves and plates toward the beginning, blank upper outer corner of plate 30 restored. London: Tho. Milbourn for the Author, 1698
Revised version of Browne's 1681 Compleat Treatise of the Muscles, which had plagiarized the text of the 1648 Muskotomia by William Molins and the illustrations to the 1632 Tabulae anatomicae by Giulio Casserio. Included in this edition are Bernard Connor's Treatise of Muscular Dissection on pages i-x; Jean Bernoulli's Mathematical Disquisitions concerning Muscular Motions on pages 171-76; and Richard Lower's An Appendix of the Heart and its Use on pages 177-83. Krivatsy 1823; Russell 104; Wing B5129.
