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BOURGERY, JEAN BAPTISTE MARC. 1797-1849. Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médicine opératoire. Paris: C.-A. Delaunay, 1831-54. image 1
BOURGERY, JEAN BAPTISTE MARC. 1797-1849. Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médicine opératoire. Paris: C.-A. Delaunay, 1831-54. image 2
BOURGERY, JEAN BAPTISTE MARC. 1797-1849. Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médicine opératoire. Paris: C.-A. Delaunay, 1831-54. image 3
BOURGERY, JEAN BAPTISTE MARC. 1797-1849. Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médicine opératoire. Paris: C.-A. Delaunay, 1831-54. image 4
BOURGERY, JEAN BAPTISTE MARC. 1797-1849. Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médicine opératoire. Paris: C.-A. Delaunay, 1831-54. image 5
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BOURGERY, JEAN BAPTISTE MARC. 1797-1849.
Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médicine opératoire. Paris: C.-A. Delaunay, 1831-54.

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BOURGERY, JEAN BAPTISTE MARC. 1797-1849.

Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médicine opératoire. Paris: C.-A. Delaunay, 1831-54.
16 volumes in 14. Folio (430 x 315 mm). 8 engraved titles, hand-colored lithographed frontispiece, and 726 lithographed plates (mostly hand-colored, 10 folding) after Nicolas Henri Jacob. Contemporary quarter Morocco and marbled boards, spines ruled and lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands, text volumes 1 & 2 bound together, and atlas volumes 1 & 2 also bound together. Light rubbing and soiling to covers, some spine ends slightly chipped, scattered foxing and minor staining.

FIRST EDITION of "one of the most beautifully illustrated anatomical and surgical treatises ever published in any language" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Published in parts over 23 years, with the final volumes published well after Bourgery's death. The hand-colored lithographs were executed after drawings by Nicolas Henri Jacob (1781-1871), a pupil of David, who made his drawings from dissections and other anatomical preparations. Heirs of Hippocrates 1569; Roberts & Tomlinson pp 537-38; Waller 1372; Wellcome II, p 214.

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