Showing posts with label early rare books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early rare books. Show all posts
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Sunday, April 28, 2013
William Cowper (1666-1709)...Myotomia reformata... 1724
William Cowper (1666-1709) was an English surgeon and anatomist.
This is his most noted work, and is one of the most beautiful anatomical atlases
of its time. The first edition was published in 1694 and contained ten illustrative plates.
Cowper then spent the years until his death on expanding it for the second edition (1724)
more HERE
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Anonymous... The Learned Man, 1511... Woodcut
from Liber de sensibus in Que hoc volumine continentur by Charles de Bovelles (Charles de Bouelles, Carolus Bovillus) (1479-1553)
a treatise on the senses. more HERE
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