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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-.

An écorché figure, lying supine on a slab, with its left arm extended. Stipple print by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1779.

Foetuses in utero: four figures showing cross-sections of a foetus in various positions in the uterus. Line engraving, 1791, by W. Taylor after F. Birnie, after W. Smellie.

List of medical periodicals, including prices, printed on verso of contents page to Alfred Kast, Pathologisch-anatomische Tafeln. Letterpress, ca. 1897.

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.

Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, published a series of anatomy plates using a colour mezzotint process which had first been developed by Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667-1741), in whose workshop Gautier d'Agoty had served as an assistant. In 1737, Le Blon obtained a copyright to publish a complete colour anatomy atlas, which never appeared. To Le Blon's process, which used the three colours of red, yellow and blue, Gautier d'Agoty added black and claimed the process to be his own invention. Plates in the Anatomie générale were executed by D'Agoty after both his own dissections (as in this case) and after those by J.C. Mertrud

1 print : mezzotint, printed in colours ; platemark 53 x 34.4 cm

Dissections of the female urogenital system: six figures. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1754.

Diagram comparable to the "six picture series" or "Alexandrian series" pasted or bound in Persian manuscripts of the "Zakhīrah-i Khvārazm’Shāhī" ("Treasure of Khvārazm’Shāhī") written by al-Jurjani (Ismā‘īl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn Jurjānī) ca. 1110 AD, and the "Tashrīḥ-i Mansur-i" ("Anatomy of Mansur" written by Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyā, ca. 1390 AD

Alexandrian series.

1 painting : watercolour, with pen and ink ; image 31.3 x 21.7 cm

The arteries of the human body with a foetus in the womb. Watercolour by a Persian artist.

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47 pages, 21 unnumbered pages, illustrations (plates) ; 33 cm

The anatomy of the thymus gland / by Sir Astley Cooper.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 17.9 x 11.5 cm

Diagrams of the human torso, left and right side views, with internal organs indicated. Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1890/1910?

Guido de Vigevano was a fourteenth-century Lombard who served as physician to the Queen of France, Jeanne de Bourgogne. Full-scale facsimiles of the eighteen illustrations to his manuscript of Galenic medicine in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, no. 334 (ex 569), dedicated to King Philip VI of Valois, were published in 1926 by Wickersheimer, together with facsimiles of early editions of the Anatomy of Mundinus. The Vigevano illustrations depict the anatomy of the abdomen, thorax, and head, demonstrated on a skeletal cadaver, as well as examples of medical treatment of living patients. This plate is of a living nude male labelled to show the sites of the interior anatomy of the figure. The left side of the chest is accordingly labelled "cor" and, on either side of the abdomen, the word "ren" designates the position of each kidney, and so on. This was to aid in diagnosing which part of the body was affected in illness. For other illustrations from the same manuscript, see catalogue nos 26646, 26662, 26665, 26682, 26684

1 print : collotype, printed in colour ; image 29.6 x 21.4 cm

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

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Dissections of the female urogenital system: six figures. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1754.

The arteries of the human body with a foetus in the womb. Watercolour by a Persian artist.

The anatomy of the thymus gland / by Sir Astley Cooper.

Diagrams of the human torso, left and right side views, with internal organs indicated. Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1890/1910?

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

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Human anatomy

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Dissections of the female urogenital system: six figures. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1754.

The arteries of the human body with a foetus in the womb. Watercolour by a Persian artist.

The anatomy of the thymus gland / by Sir Astley Cooper.

Diagrams of the human torso, left and right side views, with internal organs indicated. Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1890/1910?

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

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