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Title in red and black ink. Primarily illustrations with brief explanatory text. Color mezzotint plates of human anatomy.
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"Essai d'anatomie, en tableaux imprimés, qui representent au naturel tous les muscles de la face, du col, de la tête, de la langue & du larinx, d'après les parties disséquées & préparées, par Monsieur Duverney ... comprenant huit grandes planches dessinées, peintes, gravées & imprimées en couleur & grandeur naturelles, par le Sieur Gautier ... " has a separate title page dated 1745. "Suite de l'essai d'anatomie, en tableaux imprimes, representent au naturel tous les muscles du pharinx, du tronc & des extrémités suprérieures & inférieures, d'après les parties disséquées & préparées, par Monsieur Duverney ..." has a caption title and a colophon which reads: De l'Imprimerie de Quillau, rue Galande, à l'Annonciation, 1748. According to Choulant, etc., the two parts of the 'Myologie' were first issued separately in 1745 but Gautier's note at the end of "Anatomie générale des viscères" states that the "Essai" did not appear until 1746. Main title page in red and black. The "Myologie complette" is the second edition of his Essai d'anatomie, and the second edition of his Suite de l'essai d'anatomie, brought together in one volume. Cf. Choulant-Frank. History and bibliography of anatomic illustration. The plates are colour-printed mezzotints engraved by Jacques Gautier from the dissections of G.J. Duverney.
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Manuscripts
An autograph manuscript in three sections, written in French, possibly in the hand of Alexandre Dumas; there are pencil notes stating it is partially written by Dumas, but he also employed many assistants to help with his work. It includes settings and stage directions for the tableaux 1-3. The approximate date of the manuscript is 1861 which would mean the manuscript could have been written while Dumas was living in Italy. The manuscript has some damage to the edges of the pages and in the center of the final pages. It is accompanied by materials which provide additional provenance information: autograph notes about the manuscript in an unknown hand; Janet Saville letter to Robert M. Foster, October 18, 1951, with envelope; Thorndike Saville, Jr., letter to David M. Foster, November 16, 2010, with envelope and copy of bank record.
mssHM 84107