1681 Muscles – Browne | First edition | Molins Muskotomia, Illustrated Medicine

1681 Muscles – Browne | First edition | Molins Muskotomia, Illustrated Medicine

John Browne was a 17^th-century English surgeon who published numerous works on tumors, wounds, and swelling. While serving as a physician to English royals, Browne published a controversial treatise on the muscles of the human body. “Muscles as they appear in Humane Body” was widely distributed throughout the English-speaking world much in part to the dozens of full-page, high-detail engravings throughout.

However, author James Young quickly realized that Browne’s “Muscles” was nearly a word-for-word plagiarism of William Molins’ 1684 anatomy work “Muskotomia” and Giulio Casseri’s “Tabula Anatomicae”. Browne, having been caught, changed the title in subsequent editions to “Myographia Nova” and made adjustments to many of the engravings. Nevertheless, this work is still a remarkable English printing of 17^th-century anatomy.

Item number: #27173

Price: $2500

BROWNE, John

A compleat treatise of the muscles, as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection

In the Savoy, London: Printed by Tho. Newcombe for the Author, 1681. First edition.

Details:

• Collation:
  • [30], 213 (i.e., 237), [1]
    • Pagination errors expected of this first edition.
  • Leaves provided in facsimile:
    • Portrait frontispiece
    • Title page
    • 3 engraved plates (plate II, XII, XIII)
    • Final page of text
  • 32 plates (of 37)
    • Wanting plates VI, VII, XIX, XXIV, XXXI
  • References: Garrison-Morton 11684. Heirs of Hippocrates 422
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~13in X 8.25in (33cm x 21cm)

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