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LIZARS, John (ca 1787-1860). A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars and others, [1840].
2o (438 x 275 mm). Engraved title and 101 engraved colored plates (a few chips and some pale browning to edges). Contemporary half morocco (rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed, inner hinges reinforced, text block cracked at center). Provenance: L.K. Woodward, Westminster, Maryland (ink stamp on front pastedown).
A later issue of this outstanding anatomical atlas, with most plates (not just the illustrations of the brain) in color. The work was originally issued in 12 parts from 1822 to 1826 with a separate text in octavo format. In this later issue the text was reset in folio and combined with the plates in a much more convenient single volume. Lizar's plates were engraved by the author's brother, W. H. Lizars, one of the leading engravers of Edinburgh, well-known for engraving the earliest plates of Audubons' The Birds of America. Although it contains no new discoveries, Lizar's "superb atlas is certainly one of the most elegant works [on anatomy] of the nineteenth century "(Heirs of Hippocrates 1436). Laid in are two tickets for students attending a course in Practical Anatomy signed by Alexander Jardine Lizars, the brother of John Lizars, who was a lecturer on anatomy at Edinburgh. See Garrison-Morton 6026; Heirs of Hippocrates 1436; Waller 5950; Wellcome III,531.
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A later issue of this outstanding anatomical atlas, with most plates (not just the illustrations of the brain) in color. The work was originally issued in 12 parts from 1822 to 1826 with a separate text in octavo format. In this later issue the text was reset in folio and combined with the plates in a much more convenient single volume. Lizar's plates were engraved by the author's brother, W. H. Lizars, one of the leading engravers of Edinburgh, well-known for engraving the earliest plates of Audubons' The Birds of America. Although it contains no new discoveries, Lizar's "superb atlas is certainly one of the most elegant works [on anatomy] of the nineteenth century "(Heirs of Hippocrates 1436). Laid in are two tickets for students attending a course in Practical Anatomy signed by Alexander Jardine Lizars, the brother of John Lizars, who was a lecturer on anatomy at Edinburgh. See Garrison-Morton 6026; Heirs of Hippocrates 1436; Waller 5950; Wellcome III,531.