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[Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani.] [Pair.]
[Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani.] [Pair.]
[after Jan Wandelaar.] G. Scotin sculp. [&] S.F. Ravanet sculp.
Impensis T & P Knapton. Londini. 1747 [&] 1748.
Pair of engravings. 570 x 400mm (22½ x 16") each. Framed.
A pair of engravings from the English edition of 'Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani', by German born Dutch anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (originally Weiss) (1697 - 1770). Plate 1a depicts a full length frontal view of a flayed body, in a landscape. Its left arm is extended, illustrating the muscular form of the body. Carved into a rock behind is 'Bern Siegf Albini Tabulae Anatomicae Musculorum Hominis'. Plate 5 shows the reverse of Plate 1a, a full length posterior view of a flayed body with its left arm is extended, displaying the muscular structure of the human form.
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Joh. Henricus Burckhard
Joh. Henricus Burckhard Medicinae Doctor Ser: Ducum Brunsw: Luneburg [...]
Muller pinx. G.F. Schmidt Sc Berolini [c.1720]
Engraving, platemark 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Very large margins.
German botanist Johann Heinrich Burckhardt (1676-1738).
Wellcome Library no. 1540i.
[Ref: 38357]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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[Vesuvius as it was in 1757]
[Vesuvius as it was in 1757] Vue de Mont Vezuve tel quil etoit en 1757 / Dedié à Monsieur Blondel Dazanincourt [...]
Peint sur les lieux en 1757 par G. de la Croix eleve de Mr Vernet. N. le Mire Sculp 1762
[published by le Mire]
Engraving. 355 x 460mm (14 x 18"), with very large margins. Very slight crease upper right.
Moonlit landscape with fishermen drawing up nets, and Mount Vesuvius erupting in the background. After a painting made 'on the spot' by Charles-François Grenier de la Croix (1750-80, fl.), a pupil of landscape and marine painter Joseph Vernet (1714-89). The same view was engraved in mezzotint around the same time by the British printmaker John Dixon.
[Ref: 38318]   £380.00  
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