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Lizars' System of Anatomy with 103 color plates

Title: A System of Anatomical Parts of the Human Body, accompanied with descriptions and physiological, pathological, and surgical observations
Author: Lizars, John
Description: [26], 241, xxxvi pp. With engraved title-page & 103 hand-colored engraved plates. (folio) 17x10¾, later half calf & marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering piece. Second Edition."Although it contains no new discoveries, this superb atlas is certainly one of the most elegant works of the nineteenth century. The 101 colored lithographs were drawn by the author and his brother, William Home Lizars (1788-1859), from the author's dissections. Lizars was a pupil of John Bell and served as a naval surgeon before becoming professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh" - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1436. The plates are numbered I to CI, but there are plates IX and IX* and XXXII and XXXII*, to make the full complement of 103. Cushing L313; Waller 5950; Wellcome III, p. 531.
Heading: Place Published: Edinburgh
Publisher: W.H. Lizars
Date Published: [c.1840]