[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] Albinus, Bernard Siegfried
Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body
Edinburgh: Balfour & Smellie for Andrew Bell, 1777-1778. Two parts in one volume. Folio. (i)-iv, (1)-86 pp. Illustrated with 41 engraved plates (including 13 duplicate key plates), and two title-pages. Modern brown calf, scuffed, joints and extremities rubbed, front joint cracked, loss to spine with remnants laid in at front; stamped in gilt, with general title-page repaired and backed on heavy paper sheet; horizontal crease to center of Part Second title-page, affecting several printed letters; offsetting from plates; scattered light foxing and occasional soiling to text and plates; many bottom margins in second part singed with some paper losses (occasionally touching letterpress or engraving); some toning and soiling to general title-page and prelims; index leaves at rear toned; last leaf heavily toned and with losses to blank margins. Ex-library with ink stamp at foot of leaf N1; plates free of library markings."Established a new standard in anatomical illustrations, and remains unsurpassed for their artistic beauty and scientific accuracy." (Garrison & Morton 399)