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COWPER (WILLIAM) Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body. Illustrated with Figures After the Life... To Which is Prefix'd an Introduction Concerning Muscular Motion, first edition, Robert Knaplock, William and John Innys, and Jacob Tonson, 1724
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COWPER (WILLIAM)
Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body. Illustrated with Figures After the Life... To Which is Prefix'd an Introduction Concerning Muscular Motion, first edition, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, double-page engraved table, and 67 engraved after Rubens and Raphael (numbered 1-66, plate 13 in 2 states), engraved illustrations, diagrams, head- and tail-pieces and initials, scattered light spotting throughout, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover and first few leaves detached [Choulant, p.253; Garrison-Morton 392.1; Heirs of Hippocrates 723; Norman 530], folio (460 x 322mm.), Robert Knaplock, William and John Innys, and Jacob Tonson, 1724
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The first folio edition, remarkable not only for the quality of the large plates but for "the ingenious historiated initials wittily decorated with myotomical motifs" (Norman). See illustration on preceding page.
