Bernard Siegfried Albinus (10 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. None. First Publisher's Edition. A corrected new Dover edition with all the 80 original Albinus plates. of a classic work in Anatomy A fine, clean and unmarked copy. Out of print and uncommon.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Fair condition. Clean pages, intact binding.

Margins: 245x159 mm. Crease along bottom margin.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, By Bernard Siegfried Albinus. Translated from the Latin. Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie, For Andrew Bell Engraver. 1777 (second title page dated 1778).  Second title page reads: Tabes of the Human Muscles, By Bernard Siegifried [sic] Albinus. Part Second. Containing The Muscles of the particular Parts separated from the Body. Edinburgh: Printed for Andrew Bell Engraver. 1778.  Folio atlas in later quarter brown leather with brown cloth over boards. Raised bands and title label with gold text on spine.  Ghost impressions of some writing on leather. Other minor scuffs. Corners bumped. New end papers. Two title pages and address to Alexander Monro. Variably foxed (greater on front and rear leaves, less so through middle of book), but involving plates. Some mild transfer onto versos. 40 plates (printed single sided) and 86 numbered text pages. Complete with both title pages.  This is a later (posthumous) English-language atlas adapted from Albinus' Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani. Prostant apud Joannem & Hermannum Verbeek of 1747, but without the elaborate scenic backgrounds that the bodies were previously engraved against.  "Albinus (1697 - 1770), a native of Frankfurt, was no doubt the finest descriptive anatomist of his day, and his works were especially endowed by the artistic copper engravings by the renowned Jan Wandelaer. He was a pupil of Bidloo, Rau, and Boerhaave." (Heirs of Hippocrates).…

[Amsterdam], [B.M. Israël], [1983]. X,223 pp. B./w. frontispiece & 42 b./w. figs. Orig. hardcover (bluw cloth with silver lettering). 8vo. - With separate insert with dissertation statements.Thesis to obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Leiden, October 26, 1983. Includes addendum: transcriptions and translations of the lecture notes on Albinus' physiology. - Text in English and Latin with a summary in Dutch.…

pp. xxiv, 332, 106, 2 Three Whole Length Anatomical Figures., (ii) Books printed for John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street. Contemporary boards, new calf reback, new corners, the title and succeeding leaf dusty in the margins and with the top corner of the title repaired not affecting text, the next five leaves with old and faded damp-marking in the fore- and lower margins, the final two leaves of the book with a small ink mark in the top margin, overall a nice copy. *See RUSSELL British Anatomy 1525-1800, #8 : 'This is the text to accompany the 1749 edition of the Albinus plates published by Knapton. It is also the text for A compleat system of the blood vessels and nerves, &c. London, 1750. The latter work is listed under Anonymous [#13].' Russell does not mention the penultimate leaf - Three Whole Length Anatomical Figures; he also makes an error in the pagination, '322' instead of '332'.…

Margins: 212x145 mm. Some foxing.

Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. A total of 50 full-page engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar re-engraved by Simon Francois Ravenet for the present edition. First English edition translated from the Latin. Tables of the Human Muscles contains 40 engraved plates. Of the intitial 24 plates, 12 are in outline. Each plate has 2-12 pages of descriptive text. The Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves.lacks the second (posterior view) female anatomy engraving. Rebacked in late 19th century calf with seven raised bands and a red morocco label to spine. Rear board nearly detached. Moisture marks to some lower edges not affecting plates. Occasional archival tape repairs to edges. Previous owners' names and repairs to front fly. Circa 28.75 x 21.5 in (73 x 54.5 cm) [vi] [123] [41].…

Hardcover. Condition: gut. Leiden, J. und H. Verbeek 1761. - Von Albinus bearbeitete und kommentierte maßgebliche Ausgabe der Tabulae anatomica von Eustachius. Beste Bearbeitung der Eustachischen Tafeln. - Zweite Ausgabe, erschien erstmals 1744. - Jeder Tafel des Eustachius ist noch eine entsprechende Umrißtafel beigegeben mit Kennzeichnungen für die Beschreibung. Diese Methode zur Erklärung einer Abbildung war 1734 von Albinus in Zusammenarbeit mit seinem Graphiker J. Wandelaar erstmals angewendet worden. "Mit dieser letzten Arbeit hat er (Albinus) der descriptiven Anatomie einen grossen Dienst geleistet, weil er bei dem Texte und auch bei den Abbildungen so viel Neues hinzufügte, dass der Werth des Werkes in nicht geringem Masse erhöht worden ist." (Hirsch/Hüb.) EINBAND: Lederband d. Zt. 40,5 : 26 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit gestochener Titelvignette von J. Wandelaar (dat. 1743) und 89 anatomischen Kupfertafeln. - KOLLATION: 2 Bll., 295 S. - ZUSTAND: Kaum gebräunt, tls. wasserrandig bzw. wasserfl., 2 Taf mit mehreren hinterl. Einrissen und kl. Randläsuren im Seitensteg, 3 Bll. tintenfleckig. Einbd. etw. beschabt, Außengelenke tls. eingerissen. - LITERATUR: Blake S. 139. - Wellcome II, 26. - Hirsch/Hüb. I, 72. - Vgl. Waller I, 337 und Heirs of Hippocrates 203 (EA). - Second edition. Best adaptation of the Eustachius plates. With engr. title vignette and 89 anatom. copperplates. Contemp. calf. - Hardly browned, partly waterstained, 2 plates with several backed tears and small marginal defects at fore edge, 3 leaves ink-stained. Binding slightly scraped, outer joints partially torn. 1500 Gramm.…