Anatomie de L'Homme - circa 1845
Volume 4 Atlas: Apparatus of nutrition - Angelology - Organs of circulation and respiration
Followed by his Atlas in black and white
By Dr. Bourgery and illustrator Jacob
Anatomie de L'Homme (The Anatomy of Man) - by Dr Bourgery and the illustrator Jacob
Volume 4 Atlas: Apparatus of Nutrition - Angelology - Organs of Circulation and Respiration
Followed by his Atlas in black and white
The title page is missing but published around 1845
The lithographs were printed by Imprimerie Benard et Frey in Paris.
L'Anatomie de L'Homme is the monumental work of Dr Bourgery, who spent the last 15 years of his life working on it: Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant l'anatomie chirurgicale et la médecine opératoire.
Unanimously recognised for the finesse of its drawings by the anatomist Professor Jacob, a pupil of the famous painter of the Revolution, David.
In total, this work is illustrated with 725 folio-sized lithographed plates in sixteen volumes, eight volumes of text with 2108 pages, and eight volumes of plates with 3750 individual figures. Eighty issues were published between 1831 and 1854, the last volume being published posthumously.
Volume 4 contains 90 plates out of the original 91; plate 25 is missing.
The lithographs are always preceded by their nomenclature.
Good condition of the lithographs. Some foxing.
folio: 44x33cm
Extremely heavy! Weight: 4.4Kg
Bound in contemporary half leather.
The boards are rubbed, the corners dulled and missing, the spine is detached at the top.
Le langage des fleurs
The Language of Flowers
Published in 1848
Antique book on the symbolism of flowers
Illustrated with 20 beautiful colored plates
Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal
Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden
Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans
Fourth edition
Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.
A Treatise on Surgery
By Dr Reclus and Dr Duplay
Antique illustrated book from 1892
Volume 8
The leather on the spine of the binding is cracked, see photos
L'École du pharmacien - Eléments de matière médicale
The School of Pharmacy - Elements of Medical Science
By J. Léon Soubeiran
Published in 1878 by J. Rothschild, Publisher
Work illustrated with 547 black and white vignettes in the text
A Treatise on Surgery
By Dr Reclus and Dr Duplay
Antique illustrated book from 1891
Volume 4
Butterfly - Natural History color plate
Entomology
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)
By M. de Lignac - Volume 3
Anatomy of procreation - 1779
Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé
From Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des organes des sens de l'homme avec leur mode de préparation
Published in 1866
Lithography
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Manuel complet de Physique et de Météorologie - Complete Manual of Physics and Meteorology
By Ajasson de Grandsagne and L. Fouché
Second edition published in Brussels in 1835
Illustrated with 6 folding plates depicting more than 250 figures. (torn: see photos)
Anatomie de L'Homme - 1831
Anatomy of Man
Volume 2 with its black and white Atlas - 99 lithography
By Dr Bourgery and the illustrator Jacob
Manuel d'Anatomie descriptive du corps humain - Atlas
Anatomical Atlas - Manual of Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Body
In quarto
By Dr Cloquet - 1831 - IN COLOUR - Volume III only
Atlas consisting of 172 lithographed plates, most in colour
Binding very damaged, the leather has been torn from the boards, the first few leaves are fragile, even loose, but the rest is in good condition, the plates are very beautiful. see photos.
Attention this is Volume 2 of the Atlas, there are no plates from Volume 1 of the Atlas. The title pages at the beginning of the book are missing.
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Le corps de l'Homme
Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves
By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs
No date, circa 1900
Œuvres choisies de Buffon - Selected Works of Buffon - Natural History
Antique book from 1855
By D. Saucié
Romantic cover - MAME publisher in Tours
Anatomical chart by Paulet and Sarazin
From the Traité d'anatomie topographique (Treatise on topographical anatomy)
Published in 1867-1870
Chromolithography
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Anatomie de L'Homme - circa 1845
Volume 4 Atlas: Apparatus of nutrition - Angelology - Organs of circulation and respiration
Followed by his Atlas in black and white
By Dr. Bourgery and illustrator Jacob
