696 pp. 8 engraved folding plates by Jan Wandelaar (4 in outline). (4to) 27x21.5 cm (10¾x8½"), later half morocco and boards. First Edition.

First edition of Albinus' very detailed verbal descriptions of all the muscles of the human body, with four excellent illustrations depicting the muscles of the hand drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar. The plates show the hand life-size with all the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones. "Albinus, a native of Frankfurt, was no doubt the finest descriptive anatomist of his day, and his works were especially endowed by the artistic copper engravings by the renowned Jan Wandelaer. He was a pupil of Bidloo, Rau, and Boerhaave and, with the latter, brought out a praiseworthy edition of Vesalius (see No. 281). In the present work on the muscles of the human body, the happy conjunction of Albinus and Wandelaer is seen in the lengthy and detailed text of the anatomist and the eight engravings of the artist." (Heirs of Hippocrates). Cushing A106; Wellcome II, p. 26; Heirs of Hippocrates 829.