60 leaves, printed on one side only, comprising an engraved title page, dedication leaf, and 29 engraved plates with descriptive text on facing leaves. [Bound with] Monnet, Charles. Anatomie ou la Connoissance du Corps Humaindétailée dans chaque partie pour la facilité des personnes qui professent le dessin.. 42 etched plates, including title page. Paris: Chez Jean, [c. 1820s]. (Folio) 39x25.5 cm (15¼x10"), later calf backed boards, spine lettered in gilt. 

"According to Choulant, Disdier was a professor of surgery and also a drawing master at the Academy of Painting in Paris. The twenty-nine anatomical plates in this work are well-engraved but were most likely copied from the work of other anatomists. For example, the male and female figures depicted in the first plate bear a remarkable resemblance to a similar woodcut in Vesalius' Epitome of 1543. The entire book, including the text, was printed from engraved copperplates." Heirs of Hippocrates No. 894.