COWPER WILLIAM Anatomia corporum humanorum 1739

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COWPER, WILLIAM. Anatomia corporum humanorum. Engraved additional title and 115 plates. [69] leaves of letterpress text. Folio, 505x348 mm, contemporary gilt-panelled calf with device of bull's head pierced with dagger in center of covers, spine ends restored; occasional light marginal soiling and spotting, few minor marginal clean tears, mid-19th-century Italian inscription on front flyleaf; unidentified armorial bookplate. Leiden: apud Joannem Arnoldum Langerak, 1739

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first edition in latin. Having acquired the plates to Govert Bidloo's 1685 Anatomia humani corporis, Cowper published them without acknowledgment under his own name in 1698 with English text and in 1739 with Latin text. "The most elaborate and beautiful of all 17th century English treatises on anatomy and also one of the most extraordinary plagiarisms in the history of medicine"--Garrison-Morton 385.1 (1698 edition). Choulant-Frank, pages 252-53; Russell 213 (this edition).