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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN. 1716-1785; and J.F.M. DUVERNEY. Anatomie de le tete, en tableaux imprimes qui representent au naturel le Cerveau sous differentes coupes, la distribution des Vaisseaux dans toutes les parties de la tete, les organes des sens, et une partie de la nevrologie. Paris: Gautier, Duverney, Quillau, 1748. image 1
GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN. 1716-1785; and J.F.M. DUVERNEY. Anatomie de le tete, en tableaux imprimes qui representent au naturel le Cerveau sous differentes coupes, la distribution des Vaisseaux dans toutes les parties de la tete, les organes des sens, et une partie de la nevrologie. Paris: Gautier, Duverney, Quillau, 1748. image 2
GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN. 1716-1785; and J.F.M. DUVERNEY. Anatomie de le tete, en tableaux imprimes qui representent au naturel le Cerveau sous differentes coupes, la distribution des Vaisseaux dans toutes les parties de la tete, les organes des sens, et une partie de la nevrologie. Paris: Gautier, Duverney, Quillau, 1748. image 3
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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN. 1716-1785; and J.F.M. DUVERNEY.
Anatomie de le tete, en tableaux imprimes qui representent au naturel le Cerveau sous differentes coupes, la distribution des Vaisseaux dans toutes les parties de la tete, les organes des sens, et une partie de la nevrologie. Paris: Gautier, Duverney, Quillau, 1748.

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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN. 1716-1785; and J.F.M. DUVERNEY.

Anatomie de le tete, en tableaux imprimes qui representent au naturel le Cerveau sous differentes coupes, la distribution des Vaisseaux dans toutes les parties de la tete, les organes des sens, et une partie de la nevrologie. Paris: Gautier, Duverney, Quillau, 1748.
Title printed in red and black, 8 SPECTACULAR MEZZOTINT PLATES PRINTED IN FOUR COLORS, heightened with varnish.
BOUND WITH: Anatomie générale des viscères, et de la neurologie, angeologie et osteologie du corps humain... en figures en couleurs et grandeurs naturelles.. [Paris: 1754]. 9 (of 20?) mezzotint plates in colors, heightened with varnish, of which 6 plates combine into 2 life-size figures of a man and a woman; bound with explanatory text leaves. Lacking title page.
Folio (540 x 388 mm). 19th century mottled calf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt in 8 compartments. Chipping to spine ends and corners, a few marginal tears with old repairs.

FIRST EDITION of the first work. The dissections and preparations for the eight large figures in this atlas of the anatomy of the head were prepared by Joseph Guichard Du Verney (see No. 665), and some of the plates are among the most elaborate produced by Gautier, especially notable for the intricate network of blood vessels which are meticulously indicated by direct color printing" (Heirs). Choulant-Frank, p. 271; Garrison-Morton-Norman 7494; Heirs of Hippocrates 940; Wellcome III, p. 97.

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