Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 451.5

JEAN RIOLAN (1580-1657) Anthropographia. Ex officine Dionysii Moreau 1626 2nd ed. 8, [72], 938 [i.e. 946], [64] p. : ill. 23 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 450

The substantially enlarged, second edition of Riolan’s magnum opus, written in the middle of his life and at the height of his fame. The contents are: Anthropographiae in seven books, Osteologia novantiqua comprising twenty-three chapters of “Isagoges”, De osteologia infantis, a commentary on a part of Galen’s Librum de Ossibus, a comparison of the skeletons of men and apes (pp.900-910), and Osteologia corporis humani ex Hippocrate…collecta.

Cited references: Waller, 7995; Krivatsy, 9658; Wellcome I, 5495

Gift of John Martin, M.D.