?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BROWNE, JOHN. Myographia Nova; sive, Musculorum omnium . . . accuratissima descriptio. 40 engraved anatomical plates; double-page letterpress table. [10], 56, [4] pages, including engraved additional title. Folio, 322x217 mm, contemporary sheep, spine missing portion at top, chipped at bottom, cover corners worn through; dark dampstaining in upper and lower margins through most of volume, occasional marginal soiling and foxing, free endpapers lacking. Rush Medical College Library bookplate on front pastedown, their stamp on preliminaries and some text leaves. Leiden: Jacobus Mouckee, 1687
Second edition of the 1684 Latin translation of Browne's 1681 Compleat Treatise on the Muscles. The text and illustrations are plagiarized from earlier works by Giulio Casserio and William Molins. 'For this edition the plates were re-engraved, being rather crude copies of those in the London editions'--Russell 107. Krivatsy 1826.
