Over-sized folio, title page printed in red and black, engraved portrait of dedicatee, engraved vignette of the dissecting room on title, (final blank may not be integral); illustrated with forty-seven full-page engravings of human anatomical dissection, bound in contemporary sponge-decorated sheep, gilt-tooled spine (front joint cracked, board edges worn, contents good), ex libris contemporary French physician, with ownership on title dated 1765, notes in the same hand in French pasted on slips mounted beneath each image throughout, 14 3/4 x 10 in.
Wellcome II, p. 536; Chouland-Frank, Anatomical Illustration, p. 202; Garrison & Morton 391; Blake, 139; Norman, 740.
