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Albinus Table 1A

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Author: Albinus, Bernhard Seigfried (1697-1770).

Title: Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.

Publication Information: London: H. Woodfall; J. & P. Knapton, 1749.

P20555a

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Author: Anonymous.

Title: Persian Anatomical Illustrations.

Publication Information: [Iran or Pakistan, ca. 1680-1750].

P20555a

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Author: Anonymous.

Title: [Treatise on physiognomy].

Publication Information: [Netherlands?, ca. 1790].

Berengario Leaf 7 recto

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Author: Berengario da Carpi, Jacopo (ca. 1460-ca. 1530).

Title: Isagogae breues, perlucidae ac uberrimae in anatomiam humani corporis.

Publication Information: Bologna: Beneditcus Hector, 1523.

Bidloo Table 71

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Author: Bidloo, Govard (1649 - 1713).

Title: Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams.

Publication Information: Amsterdam: Weduwe van Joannes van Someren, et al., 1690.

Bougle Top 4

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Author: Bouglé, Julien (1868-1903).

Title: Le corpus humain et grandeur naturelle: planches coloriées et superposées, avec texte explicatif.

Publication Information: Paris: J. B. Baillière et fils, 1899.

Bourdon Table 1

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Author: Bourdon, Amé (1636 or 1638-1706).

Title: Nouvelles tables anatomiques.

Publication Information: Cambray: Chez l'autheur; Paris: Laurens d'Houry, 1678.

Braune Table IA

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Author: Braune, Wilhelm (1831-1892).

Title: Topographisch-anatomischer Atlas : nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern.

Publication Information: Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Comp., 1867-1872.

Author: Casseri, Giulio (ca. 1552-1616).

See: Spiegel, Adriaan van (1578-1625) and Casseri, Giulio (ca. 1552-1616).

Cheselden Plate 36

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Author: Cheselden, William (1688-1752).

Title: Osteographia, or The anatomy of the bones.

Publication Information: London: [William Bowyer], 1733.

Page [3]

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Author: Clorion.

Title: [Anatomical illustrations].

Publication Information: New Harmony, 1830.

Cousin Page 23

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Author: Cousin, Jehan, (1522-1593).

Title: Livre de pourtraiture.

Publication Information: Paris: Jean Leclerc, 1608.

Cowper Engraved, Allegorical Titlepage

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Author: Cowper, William (1666-1709).

Title: The anatomy of humane bodies.

Publication Information: Oxford : Printed at the Theater, for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1698.

Durer Page [230]

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Author: Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528).

Title: Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion.

Publication Information: Nuremberg: Hieronymus Formschneyder, 1528.

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Estienne Page 250

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Author: Estienne, Charles (ca. 1504-ca. 1564).

Title: De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres.

Publication Information: Paris: Simon Colinaeus, 1545.

Eustachi Table 21

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Author: Eustachi, Bartholomeo (d. 1574).

Title: Tabulae anatomicae.

Publication Information: Rome: P. Junchus, 1783.

Gamelin Table [39]

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Author: Gamelin, Jacques (1738-1803).

Title: Nouveau receuil d'ostéologie et de myologie.

Publication Information: Toulouse: J. F. Desclassan, 1779.

Gautier Table 10

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Author: Gautier d'Agoty, Jacques Fabian (1717-1786).

Title: Anatomie generale des viscères en situation, de grandeur et couleur naturelle, avec l'angeologie, et la nevrologie de chaque partie du corps humain.

Publication Information: [Paris: Gautier?, 1752].

Genga Plate 43

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Author: Genga, Bernardino (1620-1690).

Title: Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno.

Publication Information: Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1691.

Gersdorff 21V

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Author: Gersdorff, Hans von (d. 1529).

Title: Feldtbůch der Wundartzney : newlich getruckt und gebessert.

Publication Information: Strassburg: Hans Schotten zům Thyergarten, [1528].

Shou 21r

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Author: Hua, Shou (1304-1386).

Title: Jushikei hakki (Shi si jing fa hui. Japanese & Chinese).

Publication Information: [Tokyo]: Suharaya Heisuke kanko, Kyoho gan [1716].

Hundt Page [119]

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Author: Hundt, Magnus (1449-1519).

Title: Antropologium de hominis dignitate...

Publication Information: Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1501.

Hunter Table 12

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Author: Hunter, William (1718-1783).

Title: Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata = The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures.

Publication Information: Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1774.

Kawaguchi Page 11v

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Author: Kawaguchi, Shinnin (1736-1811).

Title: Kaishi hen

Publication Information: Heian [Kyoto]: Hakubundō Tanaka Ichibe, Meiwa 9 [1772].

Ketham Page 64

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Author: Ketham, Johannes de (15th century).

Title: Fasiculo de medicina.

Publication Information: Venice: Zuane & Gregorio di Gregorii, 1494.

Kulmus Page 1

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Author: Kulmus, Johann Adam (1689-1745).

Title: Kaitai shinsho.

Publication Information: Tōbu [Tokyo]: Suharaya Ichibē shi, An'ei 3 [1774].

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Plate 5

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Author: Laskowski, Sigismond (b. 1841).

Title: Anatomie normale du corps humain: atlas iconographique de XVI planches.

Publication Information: [Genève: Braun, 1894].

Mansur Folio 13a

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Author: Mansur ibn Ilyas (fl. ca. 1390).

Title: Tashrih-i badan-i insan. [Anatomy of the Human Body].

Publication Information: [Iran, ca. 1390].

Porta Page 59

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Author: Porta, Giambattista della (1535-1615).

Title: De humana physiognomonia libri IIII.

Publication Information: Vici Aequensis [Vico Equense]: I. Cacchium, 1586.

Quain Plate 1

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Author: Quain, Richard (1800-1887).

Title: The anatomy of the arteries of the human body, with its applications to pathology and operative surgery.

Publication Information: London: Printed for Taylor and Walton, 1844.

Ruini Page 147

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Author: Ruini, Carlo (1530-1598).

Title: Anatomia del cavallo, infermità, et suoi rimedii.

Publication Information: Venice: Fioravante Prati, 1618.

Sarland Plate [15]

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Author: Sarlandière, Jean-Baptiste (1787-1838).

Title: Anatomie méthodique...

Publication Information: Paris: Chez les libraires de médecine, et chez l'auteur, 1829.

Smellie Table 10

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Author: Smellie, William (1697-1763).

Title: A sett of anatomical tables... of the practice of midwifery.

Publication Information: London: [s.n.], 1754.

Spiegel Table 4

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Author: Spiegel, Adriaan van (1578-1625) and Casseri, Giulio (ca. 1552-1616).

Title: De formato foetu liber singularis.

Publication Information: Padua: Io. Bap. de Martinis & Livius Pasquatus, [1626].

Casseri Page 3

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Author: Spiegel, Adriaan van (1578-1625) and Casseri, Giulio (ca. 1552-1616).

Title: De humani corporis fabrica libri decem.

Publication Information: Venice: Evangelista Deuchino, 1627.

Valverde Page 64

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Author: Valverde de Amusco, Juan (ca. 1525-ca. 1588).

Title: Anatomia del corpo humano.

Publication Information: Rome: Ant. Salamanca and Antonio Lafrery, 1560.

Vesalius Titlepage

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Author: Vesalius, Andreas (1514-1564).

Title: De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

Publication Information: Basel: Joannes Oporinus, 1543.

Vimont Table 82

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Author: Vimont, Joseph (1795-1857).

Title: Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée.

Publication Information: Paris: J. B. Baillière, 1832-35.

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