MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS

We have a collection that includes portraits ( see Vanity Fair ), illustrations detailing instruments, areas of the body e.g. "Yaggys Anatomical Study" chromolithographs showing the nervous system, the effects of alcohol and opium an the stomach lining published in Chicago in 1885.
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No.M1 "Anatomie, La Tete du Squette et quelques Foetus"
The Skeleton of a Foetus

No.M2
"Plate1-(HUMAN) ANATOMY-Viscera"

An original copper-plate engraving by Thomas Milton (1743-1827), recent hand colouring.
(showing back view of the anatomy from M2 above.)
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Brown, London 'as the Act directs.June Ist, 1814'
Size = 21cm x 27cm.
Condition= Clean print on wove paper, crease in top left corner, with no foxing
Price = AUS$145

No.M3 "Chirurgie"(Surgical Instruments)

Original copper-plate engraving by Simonen Benard printed on Laid Paper.
Published Paris, c.1740.
Plate mark size = 23cm x 19cm and is uncoloured.
Condition=Excellent
Price = AU$175.00

No.M4 "ANTHROPOMETRICS
The measurement of the size and proportions of the Human Body
Plate #1 : Skeleton (adult anterior and Posterior view, and Child's skeleton)
Original copper engraving, hand coloured Published Germany c.1820(copy of key to plate supplied)
Image size = 21cm x 26cm.
Condition= Paper has undergone restoration hence acids have been removed but remains patchy in appearance.
SOLD

No.M5
"Plate 2-(HUMAN) ANATOMY-Viscera"

An original copper-plate engraving by Thomas Milton (1743-1827), recent hand colouring
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Brown, London 'as the Act directs, June Ist, 1814.'
Size = 21cm x 27cm.
Condition= Clean print on wove paper with no foxing
Price = AUS$145

No.M6 "Late Stages of an ulcerated Stomach of a Habitual Drinker of Intoxicants/ Effects of Intemperance on the Intestines/ Last Stages of Delerium Tremens (on the Stomach)"

An original chromolithograph for YAGGY'S ANATOMICAL STUDY. At the base it states;
The above were made from sketches taken at post-mortem examinations of Patients at Washingtonian Home...
Published by L.W.Yaggy & James J.West, Chicago, Illinois 1888.
Image size = 43cm x 73cm.
Condition= due to its size it is hard to do this print justice on the net and with a digital camera. Also due to the nature of this informative publication the prints are backed with Linen to enable them to be used for demonstration. It is also of a "glossy nature", is hard to photograph. There are several stress factures to the finish which is usual in material of this sixe and usage.
Price = AU$110.00