Dictionaire anatomique suivi d'une bibliotheque anatomique et physiologique

by TARIN, Pierre

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Paris: Briasson, 1753. First edition. Quarto (280 x 190 mm.). [4], 102, [2]. 107, [1] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title page. Contemporary French cat's-paw calf, spine compartments gilt, beige morocco gilt spine label, marbled endpapers, edges stained red. Old oil [?] stain to cover else a beautiful copy of this rare title.First edition of an eighteenth-century bibliography of anatomy which has escaped the notice of bibliographers from Peignot to Garrison-Morton. There is a copy in the Bibliotheca Walleriana (no. 9,488), perhaps because it is preceded, and consequently is concealed somewhat, by a vocabulary of anatomical terminology. Tarin, who published "a number of valuable works" (Hirsch) on anatomy, and contributed articles to Diderot's EncyclopŽdie, based his Bibliothque on Haller's edition of Boerhave's Methodus studii medici, 1751 (preceding Haller's Bibliotheca anatomica, 1774-1777); he was assisted by AbbŽ Claude Sallier, one of the compilers of the Catalogue de la Bibliothque Royale, the physician and book collector Camille Falconet, and AbbŽ Desmarets.

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