Anatomical tables of the bones, muscles, blood vessels and nerves of the human body
Bernardi Siegfried Albini, 1828
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About this book
A new edition, from the original work published in 1747
"The plates "established a new standard in anatomical illustration and remain unsurpassed for their artistic beauty and scientific accuracy" (Garrison-Morton, 5th ed., 399)."
"The chef d'oeuvre of Albinus, professor of surgery at Leiden, with illustrations of the bones and muscles unsurpassed for their beauty and scientific accuracy. The amazing plates in this work were drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaer… Albinus supervised every drawing with meticulous care, and saw that the smallest details were reproduced with the greatest accuracy. This magnificent work is the apogee of a remarkable collaboration between physician and artist which lasted over thirty years. The first three plates are finished representations of the skeleton and are each accompanied by an outline plate of the same size. The following nine plates represent complete finished musclemen, each with an additional outline plate. The fourteen plates following these represent special muscles and parts of muscles. Each one of the very numerous figures on these last fourteen plates is supplied with an outline drawing unless the letters are engraved directly above the finished figures. There is a total of forty plates. The first twelve plates are some of the most beautiful plates in the history of engraving. Wandelaer placed each in a carefully chosen landscape setting, and the artistic results are so pleasantly successful that the anatomical figures, although composed in many separate parts, appear to be actually stepping out of the picture" (Norman, Medicine and the Life Sciences).
