Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 815

WILLIAM CHESELDEN (1688-1752) Osteographia; or, The anatomy of the bones. [n. publ.] n.d. [1733?] [2] pp., 56 plates. 45.4 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 810

Only 300 copies of Osteographia were printed and 203 copies remained after the subscribers received their copies. Cheselden then broke up the sets and offered the plates of the human bones for 30 shillings a set and the plates of comparative osteology for 10 shillings a set. This undated issue with its specially printed title page and complete set of unlettered plates is undoubtedly part of one of the 203 copies that were broken up and sold.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 261; Cushing C207; Garrison-Morton 395; Russell 175; Wellcome II, p. 335

Gift of John Martin, M.D.