[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] Cowper, William. Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body

London: Printed for Robert Knaplock, and William and John Innys; and Jacob Tonson, 1724. First folio edition. Folio. (xii), lxxvii, (i), 194 pp.; two leaves of Preface (B1-2) bound out of order, appearing following a2. Title-page printed in red and in black. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, double-page engraved table, 67 numbered engraved plates (Plate XIII in two states), and numerous in-text engravings as well as engraved initials, and head- and tail-pieces. Modern three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth-covered boards, red morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, scattered wear along extremities and joints; red speckled edges; frontispiece repaired on verso edges, wear and soiling to same; dampstaining along fore-edge of title-page, soiling to same; soiling and wear along edges of most prelims, including repair in lower fore-edge of C1; scattered soiling in spotting, largely confined to margins; bookseller's ticket at bottom rear paste-down ("The Sign of the Three Candles Ltd, Dublin"). ESTC T132917; Heirs to Hippocrates 723; Norman 530; Osler 2384; Choulant-Frank, p. 253

First published in 1694 in an octavo edition with only ten plates, this 1724 edition, although intended as a second edition, represents an entirely new work. Edited by Richard Mead, it was expanded with the inclusion of more than 60 finely engraved plates by Dutch engraver Michiel van der Guchts, some after drawings by Rubens and Raphael, as well as a lengthy introduction.

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[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] Cowper, William. Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body

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