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Browne, John (1642-1700) Myographia Nova: or a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body.
London: Printed by Tho. Milbourn, for the Author, 1697.
Folio, engraved frontispiece portrait of Browne bound opposite the title, with forty full-paged anatomical plates, bound in full contemporary speckled English calf, tooled in blind, rebacked, contents good, 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
First edition of a substantially revised version of Browne's 1681 Compleat Treatise of the Muscles, which had plagiarized the text of William Mollins's Muskotomia, and the illustrations to Giulio Casserio's 1632 Tabulae Anatomicae. The work also contains the first edition of Richard Lower's An Appendix of the Heart and its Use.
Krivatsy 1822; Russell 103; Fulton, Lower 50; Wing B-5128.
