Anatomie

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A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body; their structure explained, and compared with that of the capsular ligaments of the joints, and of those sacs which line the cavities of the thorax and abdomen; with remarks on the Accidents and Diseases which affect those several Sacs, and on the Operations necessary for their cure. Illustrated with tables.

First Edition, folio (470 x 290 mm), [5], 6-60pp., 10 engraved plates (4 folding on 2 sheets joined) after A. Fyfe and Thomas Donaldson, plates II and III with short tears not touching the image, plate V a little creased with short closed tears, nineteenth-century half calf, rubbed, covers detached. This was "The first serious study of this subject and the most original anatomical work by the greatest of the Monro dynasty." It contains the first full anatomical description of the sacs between the tendons and bones which Albinus had named the bursae mucosae. They are illustrated on the ten plates "which for explicit clarity and accuracy have not been improved upon." (Heirs of Hippocrates 1011). The plates depict the foot, various joints including the knee and hip, and four of the plates are life-sized representations of the entire arm and leg. Monro secundus' earlier publications were largely polemical, and it was not until he had been teaching for twenty-five years that his three main contributions to medical literature appeared. Monro's Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System (Edinburgh, 1783), a massive text and atlas on human and comparative neurology, is Monro's greatest work. His Description of All the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body... was a practical manual for direct use in surgery. Although next to nothing was known of germ life at that time, Monro's acute observation and independent empirical judgement led him to the conclusion that the chief danger of infection in surgery of joints lay in exposure to the air. Garrison-Morton, 399.2; Blake, p.309; Heirs of Hippocrates 1011; Wellcome, IV, p.156. Russell, British anatomy, 613. Taylor, The Monro Collection, M170.

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(ANATOMY - ILLUSTRATIONS). TINNEY, JOHNABAA

A COMPENDIOUS TREATISE OF ANATOMY ADAPTED TO THE ARTS OF DESIGNING PAINTING AND SCULPTURE: ON EIGHT FOLIO COPPER PLATES

1770réf. ST20219London: Printed for Robert Sayer ca. 1770. 380 x 242 mm. 15 x 9 1/2". 4 leaves of text followed by plates. Original gray paper wrappers. WITH EIGHT FINE ENGRAVED PLATES of the male body in various poses three depicting the skeleton and five the musculature. Russell 816; Wellcome V p. 273; ESTC N51161. See also Russell "John Tinney's Compendium Anatomicum and its publishers." Wrapper a bit soiled and foxed corners torn with two snags two-inch and half-inch to lower cover most of spine chipped away but the stitching holding the book firmly together; mild offsetting from engravings and a few spots of foxing but a really excellent copy internally the leaves fresh and clean and with very good impressions of the engravings. This rare collection of striking anatomical engravings is wonderfully preserved in its original unrestored wrappers. First published in 1743 as "Compendium Anatomicum" the work's plates are adapted from the famous anatomies of Vesalius and Cowper. It was intended as a reference work for artists but as its name suggests it was published with a wider audience in mind. As Tinney humbly tells the reader in the subtitle this is "a work not only very useful but absolutely necessary to painters statuaries and all professors of drawing and design as well as a proper introduction to the study of anatomy for the use of young surgeons" not to mention an "instructive furniture for the studies and libraries of the curious." The work remained in print for a full century though because it was a frequently used book few copies have come down to us in collectible condition. John Tinney ca. 1706-61 was an engraver and print seller who dealt in a wide variety of material being particularly known for maps and satirical prints as well as the present work. Our edition while undated almost certainly dates to the period between 1762-70. The first posthumous edition of "A Compendious Treatise" was released in 1762 by Robert Sayer a map and print seller who was an associate of Tinney's during his lifetime and who likely purchased his stock of plates from his widow following his 1761 death. In 1770 Sayer began a partnership with John Bennett after which the firm was known as "Sayer and Bennett." Since the present edition was published under Sayer's name alone it no doubt comes from the period following the 1762 edition but before the partnership. The present copy has made it through the centuries in remarkably good condition given its flimsy binding and the plates inside with their cheerfully macabre figures remain quite fresh and pleasing. Printed for Robert Sayer unknown books