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COWPER, WILLIAM. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies. Engraved additional title and 114 (of 115) plates; lacks plate 30 (showing muscles of the back). Folio, 505x364 mm, contemporary calf, badly worn, covers detached; contents toned, marginal dampstaining on opening leaves with traces of mold, scattered spotting and stains elsewhere, institutional stamp on title and verso of plates, plate 10 frayed, with clean tear repaired on verso, dark stain in lower corner of last several plates and text leaves; bookplate. Leiden: Joh. Arn. Langerak, 1737
Second edition in English. 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) 212 (this edition).
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