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Lot 81
Sale 1242 - Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection
Nov 9, 2023
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QUAIN, Jones (1796-1865), and William James Erasmus WILSON (1809-1884), editors. The Vessels of the Human Body; In a Series of Plates, with References and Physiological Comments. London: Taylor and Walton, 1837.
Folio. 50 lithographed plates with hand-coloring. (Short tears to a few leaves not touching letters nor images, minor soiling and spotting.) Publisher's brown cloth (rebacked, some wear and soiling).
FIRST EDITION. Depicting the circulatory system, The Vessels was issued to accompany Quain's 1828 Elements of Descriptive and Practical Anatomy, considered "among the most important of the English textbooks on anatomy" (Garrison-Morton 410). The Vessels was one of 5 plate books separately issued to accompany Quain's Anatomy text, including The Muscles (1836), The Nerves (1839), The Viscera (1940), and The Bones and Ligaments (1842).
Property from the Dorros Family Collection