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xxxviii, [2], 293, [3] pp. With a few woodcut head- and tailpieces in the text.  (12mo) 19th-century patterned paper-covered boards, title handwritten on spine label. First French Edition.

An important treatise on comparative anatomy by Alexander Monro, Primus (1697-1767), the first of the great line of Monro’s that formed a dynasty in Edinburgh medicine for over 125 years. This first French edition was translated from the “New” edition published by Monro’s son in Edinburgh in 1783. The first edition, unauthorized and printed anonymously, in English, was published in London in 1744. “The first general treatise on Comparative Anatomy in which these two words appear on the title-page.”--See Cole Library Catalogue, p. 245. Blake, p. 309. Russell, British Anatomy, 597. Cole Library Catalogue 1334. Not in Wellcome. Not in the British Library Catalogue nor in any of our other collection catalogues.