Willam Cowper
Anatomia corporum humanorum, centum et quatvordecim tabulis, singlar artificio, nec minor elelgantia .. omnia nunc primum latinitate donata, curante G. Dundass. Leiden, J. A. Langerak 1739.

Erste lateinische Ausgabe mit hervorragenden anatomischen Darstellungen von Bidloo und Cowper.

"Cowper provided with this work, first published in English in 1698, one of the better-known stories of theft in medical history. Of the 114 plates in this collection, only nine were original with Cowper. All of the others were the work of Govard Bidloo and were published in his Anatomia humani corporis in 1685. Cowper obtained three hundred sets of Bidloo's plates, pasted his own name over that of Bidloo on the title page, made a few corrections in ink, added nine plates of his own, translated the text into English, and published the whole under his own name .. Cowper's atlas was published again in the mid-eighteenth century in both an English edition (1737) and this Latin edition of 1739, with impressions taken from the old plates. This atlas is, indeed, a handsome production, with its life-sized copperplates and striking evgraved title page" (Heirs of Hippocrates).

EINBAND: Leder der Zeit mit reicher Rückenvergoldung. 54 : 38 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit gestochenem Frontispiz, gestochener Titelvignette und 120 Kupfern auf 116 (2 gefalt.) Tafeln. - KOLLATION: 64 nn. Bll. - ZUSTAND: Tlw. etw. fleckig und gebräunt. 3 Tafeln mit restaur. Randeinissen. Einband bestoßen und stark beschabt, Rücken restauriert. - Innen gutes und sauberes Exemplar auf kräftigem Papier.

LITERATUR: Choulant S. 95. - Wellcome II, 401. - Heirs of Hippocrates 468. - Vgl. Norman 389; Garrison/M. 3851.

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