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CROOKE (HELKIAH) Mikrokosmografia [in Greek]. A Description of the Body of Man. Together with the Controversies and Figures Thereto Belonging, John Clarke, 1651
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CROOKE (HELKIAH)
Mikrokosmografia [in Greek]. A Description of the Body of Man. Together with the Controversies and Figures Thereto Belonging, pictorial engraved title, woodcut illustrations in the text, index bound at end, pp.215/216 with piece of margin torn and some loss to side-note, 2 small paper flaws but good copy with wide margins, twentieth century calf gilt, spine tooled in compartments with raised bands [Wing C7230; cf. Heirs of Hippocrates 405, first edition], folio 338 x 215mm.), John Clarke, 1651
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Third edition of "one of the last English anatomies based on continental sources to appear before the emergence of a truly English anatomical school". First published in 1615, "it was also the largest and most comprehensive English anatomy up to its day" (Heirs of Hippocrates). The text is largely translated from the Theatrum anatomicum of Bauhin and Historica anatomica humani corporis of Du Laurens, with commentaries by Crooke.





















