ARS ANATOMICA OR THE ANATOMY OF HUMANE BODIES, WILLIAM SALMON 1714 FIRST EDITION

[SALMON, WILLIAM (1644-1713)]. Ars anatomica: or, the anatomy of humane bodies. In seven books. Representing to the mind a true and compleat idea of the whole humane frame. Deliverd in A Compendious Method. Extracted Out of the Works of the most Learned and Accurate Anatomists, both Ancient and Modern, and reformed according to all the later Discoveries. Illustrated with XXIX anatomical sculptures, engrav’d on copper, with their several Explications. The most compleat Work of this Kind yet publish’d in English. London: printed by I. Dawks, for D. Browne, at Exeter-Change in the Strand; W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater - Noster - Row; and J. Browne, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar, MDCCXIV. [1714].

First edition, leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (18.5cm x 11cm x 4.5cm), pp. [8], 552 + 28 plates; English text in double columns. Bound in later full calf, smooth spine with morocco lettering-piece, gilt frames and lettering to boards. Appendix to rear followed by 28 leaves of plates. Condition: GOOD. Rebacked retaining the boards, new endpapers. Lacking frontispiece (?), 28 (of 29?) medical plates present, light toning, some ink staining to plates. Extremely scarce. [ESTC T113419].