Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1171.1

JEAN JOSEPH SUE 1760-1830 Elémens d’anatomie, à l’usage des peintres, des sculpteurs, et des amateurs : ornés de quatorze planches en taille-douce, représentant au naturel tous les os de l’adulte et ceux de l’enfant du premier âge, avec leur explication Chez l’auteur 1805 2e éd. viii, 52 p., 14 folded leaves of plates : ill. 33 cm.

Jean-Joseph Sue (1760–1830), was a noted anatomist and son of Jean-Joseph Sue (1710–1792), a French surgeon and anatomist. He held the position of surgeon at the Hospital de la Charite and was at the same time professor of anatomy and surgery at the medical school and instructor in anatomy for the artists of the Academy of Painting in Paris. For the instruction of the latter he published in 1788 an atlas of anatomy consisting of fourteen large cooper plates showing skeletons, skulls, and bones, with explanatory text. The plates were of high artistic quality, the skeletons being shown against a background of landscapes. Part of the edition was still unsold seventeen years later, when it was published again with a new title page. Both issues are now very rare.

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Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 324 (listing the 1788 edition)

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