CALDANI, LEOPOLDO MARCO ANTONIO and FLORIANO CALDANI. Icones anatomicae; Iconum anatomicarum explicatio. Venice, 1801-14. Engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved titles and 461 engraved plates, including 197 outline duplicates. 3 atlas volumes in 4 and 3 text volumes in 5, together 6 in 9 volumes, folio atlas volumes 705 x 515 mm., (28 x 20 in.) and text volumes 375 x 260 mm., (14 x 10 in.), contemporary half sheep and contemporary wrappers (uncut and partially unopened), wear and scraping to spine ends of some volumes, atlas vol. I in variant binding; marginal light dampstaining to some volumes. FIRST EDITION. Heirs of Hippocrates 605 ("...massive and beautiful compilation of the best anatomic representations of the past years. For example, the representations of bones and muscles follow Albinus, the teeth and sexual organs are after John Hunter, the lymphatics after Mascagni, etc. Some, however, were original preparations by the younger Caldani..."); Wellcome p. 287; Choulant-Frank, pp. 327-28. (9)