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Muscles of the lower leg and foot. Engraving, 1686, after Gérard de Lairesse, 1685.

An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a length of rope. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.

Samson carries the gates of Gaza out of the city. Woodcut.

Muscles of the leg and foot: four figures. Pencil drawing by J. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.

Muscles of the trunk: four figures, including the ribcage and shoulder. Pencil drawing by A. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.

Tractatus quinque medico-physici / Quorum primus agit de sal-nitro et spiritu nitro-aereo. Secundus de respiratione. Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalis. Ultimus de rhachitide [sic].

An écorché with left arm extended to the side, seen from the front. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.

Two figures: a kneeling human skeleton, with hands tied behind its back, and an écorché figure tied to a tree-trunk. Engraving by Barlow, ca. 1800.

Don't waste your time or money on ROT! : Here's what I'm ready to do: I'll prove in just 7 days YOU can have a body like mine / Charles Atlas.

Muscles of the leg: left leg right anterior view (left); left leg right anterior view (centre); right leg right posterior view (right).

1 print : engraving ; image 34.6 x 19.3 cm

A muscleman, seen from the front. Engraving, 1713, after a woodcut, 1543.

<p>An episode in John Milton's 'Samson agonistes': the first lines of the poem, in which Samson is allowed out of the dungeon to reflect on his blind fate in the open air</p>

1 print : stipple engraving ; image 22.1 x 15.5 cm

A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.

16 unnumbered pages, 49, 54-88, that is, 90 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates, one double : illustrations, portrait (engravings) ; 34 cm (folio)

Myographia nova, sive, Musculorum omnium (in corpore humano hactenùs repertorum) accuratissima descriptio, in sex praelectiones distributa : nomina singulorum in suo quaeque loco, situque naturali, in aeneis musculorum iconibus exarantur: eorum item origines, insertiones, & usus, graphice describuntur, additis insuper ipsius authoris, & aliorum nuperrimis observationibus & inventis / opera & studio Joannis Browne.

Living anatomy : a photographic atlas of muscles in action and surface contours / by R. D. Lockhart.

x, 2 unnumbered pages, 140 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves, 17 leaves of engr. plates : illustrations ; (8vo)

A short description of the human muscles, arranged as they appear on dissection. Together with their several uses, and the synonyma of the best authors / By John Innes.

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Muscles

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A muscleman, seen from the front. Engraving, 1713, after a woodcut, 1543.

A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.

Living anatomy : a photographic atlas of muscles in action and surface contours / by R. D. Lockhart.

A short description of the human muscles, arranged as they appear on dissection. Together with their several uses, and the synonyma of the best authors / By John Innes.

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Muscles

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A muscleman, seen from the front. Engraving, 1713, after a woodcut, 1543.

A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.

Living anatomy : a photographic atlas of muscles in action and surface contours / by R. D. Lockhart.

A short description of the human muscles, arranged as they appear on dissection. Together with their several uses, and the synonyma of the best authors / By John Innes.

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