Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 830

BERNHARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS (1697-1770) Icones ossium foetus humani. Apud Joh. et Herm. Verbeek 1737 [4] 162 [2] pp., 32 plates. 26 cm.

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Albinus is particularly remembered for his descriptions of the bones, and this first edition of his treatise on fetal bones is one of his finest atlases. All of the fetal bones are illustrated with great detail and are finely lined in the sixteen plates and sixteen line drawings, but in no place is the total skeleton depicted. At the end of his preface, Albinus promises to see to it that only good prints are published and that the plates are not given away to anybody, to prevent the making of inferior prints for the sake of pecuniary gain.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 280; Wellcome II, p. 26

Gift of John Martin, M.D.