COWPER WILLIAM Anatomia corporum humanorum 1750

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COWPER, WILLIAM. Anatomia corporum humanorum. Engraved additional title and 118 plates. [71] leaves of letterpress text. Folio, 518x358 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine ends and morocco lettering piece chipped, leather partly loosened from front board; light dampstain in outer margin of opening leaves, minor spotting on text leaves through most of volume, plates generally clean, vertical crease in plate 73. Utrecht: Nicolaus Muntendam, 1750

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Second 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 (1963) 214 (this edition).