4to (255 x 192mm). 8 engraved folding plates by Jan Wandelaar (4 in outline). (Title-page a little toned and soiled with a small triangular tear at foot, variable browning and spotting throughout, plates clean.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt (spine ends, joints and corners discreetly restored, lower joint with a short split). Provenance: Dr. Wilhelm Pfitzner (ownership inscription on front flyleaf, dated Strassburg, 1890).

 

FIRST EDITION of Albinus' very detailed verbal descriptions of all the muscles of the human body, with four excellent illustrations depicting the muscles of the hand drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar. The plates show the hand life-size with all the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones. 

 

Choulant-Frank, p.280; Heirs of Hippocrates 829; Norman 28; Wellcome II, p. 26