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MONRO, ALEXANDER. Traité d'Ostéologie. 62 engraved plates, including 31 outline duplicates. [4], xxxii, 212; [2], 213-316 (of 317) pages, including engraved allegorical frontispiece; lacks last text leaf. 2 volumes. Folio, 550x388 mm, 18th-century 1/2 sheep, spines worn with portions missing, shelf labels, piece missing from fore edge of Volume 2 front cover; intermittent toning or browning of text leaves and plates, stains and early owner's inscription on titles, paper corrosion and tear in blank outer margin of Volume 2 title, accession number on next leaf in each volume. Bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries with release stamps. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1759
first edition in french andfirst illustrated edition of Monro's chief work, the 1726 Anatomy of the Humane Bones, "a most sumptuous production, completely overshadowing the original. Its only counterpart is Cheselden's Osteographia" (Russell). Choulant-Frank, page 324; Russell 590.
