Browne, John

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

A Compleat Treatise of the Muscles, As they appear in Humane Body, And arise in Dissection; With Diverse Anatomical Observations Not yet Discovered. [London] in the Savoy: Printed by Tho. Newcombe, 1681
Paper, Ink, Leather

Folio (12 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 324 x 190 mm). Frontispiece portrait of the author by R. White. 37 Engraved plates, with 12 extra leaves of explanatory letterpress, 3-page list of subscribers with customary mis-pagination; small repair to lower fore-edge of frontispiece; a few minor stains, tears, and losses, none affecting text. Antique calf gilt.

Literature

Wing B5126

Catalogue Note

First edition. Browne was the subject of a scathing attack by James Young (1647–1721) in Medicaster medicatus, or a remedy for the itch of scribbling (1685) in which the work at hand was shown to be blatantly plagiarized from the work of Casserio and William Molins.