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Anatomie du gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux arts, ou, Traité des os, des muscles, du mécanisme des mouvemens, des proportions et des caractères du corps humain : ouvrage orné de 22 planches

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Creator: par Jean-Galbert Salvage
Format: Books
Language: French
Contributors: Bosq, Jean, engraver

Goldschmid, Edgar, 1881-1957, former owner
Publication: [Large paper édition]

A Paris : Chez l'auteur : De l'imprimerie de Mame, 1812
Physical Details: 3 preliminary leaves, frontispiece, iv, 64 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 62 cm (folio)
OCLC: ocn753575934

With a half-title. Verso of half-title has a list of three booksellers in Paris where this title may be obtained.
Engraved frontispiece by Leroux (sculp.) after Salvage (del.); frontispiece has guardsheet.
Twenty one engraved plates (16 printed in red and black) signed Salvage del., Bosq sculp.
"Planche d'Introduction" (between pp. 12-13) is not numbered; plates 1-20 are numbered; plates 8-11 and 13-15 are reproduced again with the difference that one plate shows the bones of the body, the others show the muscles of the body and their combination.
Errata: p. [62].
Includes bibliographical footnotes.
Wellcome cat. of printed books, V, p. 16
Provenance: Presented to The New York Academy of Medicine by The Society of the New York Hospital, March, 1898 (bookplate).