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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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Volume of explanatory text has separate t.p. Lithographed t.p. of atlas of plates is signed: "C.A. Racinet, Del. et Scripsit. ; Lith. de C. de Lasteyrie". Imprint on t.p. of explanatory text: Paris, a l'Imprimerie lithographique de R. Brégeaut, lithographe breveté, successeur du Comte de Lasteyrie, rue Saint-Marc, no. 8, petit passage des Panoramas ; ex chez les principaux libraires de France et de l'Étranger. De l'Imprimerie de Dondey-Dupré, rue Saint-Louis, no. 46, au Marais. 1826. Plates are numbered I - XLVIII. Each number is assigned to 2 plates: one in black outline with labels, and one hand-colored, without labels. This numbering should give 48 pairs of plates, totalling 96 plates. CSmH copy has 82 plates total. Choulant states this work was issued with 90 plates.
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Parallel columns of text in Spanish and Nahuatl. Instituted by Pedro de Cordoba; continued and corrected by Juan Zumarraga and Domingo de Betanzos--Cf. "Prologo." At head of title: Veritas domini manet in eternum. Title page in red and black. Imprint from colophon Large woodcut, in red and black, of the shield of the Order of St. Domingo on t.p. Signatures: a-t⁸ v⁶. Verso of final leaf blank.
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"...Second edition, but first to contain the plates. ... With 26 plates printed in color in black, yellow, red, and blue, rendered using the Le Blond technique ... A rare work in the history of color printing. Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (1715-1794), was the most famous midwife of the 18th century. Her task (for which she was royally appointed by Louis XV) was to teach the art of childbirth to the largely illiterate female population of France. In this second edition, Le Blon's pupil Robert supplied the plates ... So far as we were able to determine, this is the only work of Robert's to appear in book form"--From bookseller's description (Wilsey Rare Books).
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