Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 881

ALBRECHT VON HALLER (1708-1777) Icones anatomicae. Apud viduam B. Abrami Vandenhoeckii 1756 47 plates (part fold.). 44 cm.

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Haller considered the present work and Opera minora emendata to be his two best works. The book was published in eight fascicules beginning in 1743 and ending in 1756. Although nearly ten different engravers prepared plates for the book, the plates are all of high quality and are clear, artistic, and exact renditions of their subject. The plates depict nearly all the arteries of the human body as well as the various organs. There are special plates of the heart, omentum, base of the skull, diaphragm, uterus, and spinal cord. Ludwig Choulant states that "this work will always remain the main source of information for accurate anatomic studies, especially of the arteries and the viscera" (History and bibliography of anatomic illustration. Chicago, 1920. p. 290).

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 289-290; Garrison-Morton 397; Osler 1153; Waller 4011; Wellcome III, p. 198

Gift of John Martin, M.D.