A compendious system of anatomy : in six parts ... ; illustrated with twelve large copperplates.

  • Fyfe, Andrew, 1754-1824.
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April MDCCXC [1790]
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[Philadelphia] : Extracted from the American edition of the Encyclopedia ; now publishing, by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, in Second-Street, Philadelphia, April MDCCXC [1790]

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88, 753-760, 97-105 pages, 1 unnumbered page, XIX-XXX leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 26 cm (4to)

References note

Bristol B7365
Shipton & Mooney 45875
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 798
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 164
ESTC (RLIN) W11900

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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Attributed to Andrew Fyfe by Austin
The article "Anatomy" from the American edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in parts 1790-98 with title: Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature. Based on the 3d ed., Edinburgh, 1797 (i. e. 1788-1797) which states on p. xv of preface: "For whatever instruction may be conveyed in the articles Anatomy and Surgery the public is indebted to Andrew Bell, F. S. S. A., one of the proprietors, and ... Mr. Fyfe ..."
Plates engraved by Robert Scot and James Thackara, after those by Andrew Bell in the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Signatures: 4P-5D⁴
Film 633 reel 44 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 44, no. 798).

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(from t.p.) Part I. Osteology. II. Of the muscles, etc. III. Of the abdomen. Part IV. Of the thorax. V. Of the brain and nerves. VI. Of the senses

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