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Preliminary leaves plus 104 (of 105) copper-engraved plates, interleaved with descriptive letterpress; additional engraved title page; portrait frontispiece. Plate number 2 lacking. (Folio) 52x36 cm (20½x14¼"), old half vellum and boards, leather spine label. First Edition.

"Bidloo, professor of anatomy at The Hague, was at one time physician to William of Orange. An English contemporary, William Cowper, furnished his Anatomy of humane bodies almost completely with engravings plagiarized from this book by Bidloo, who promptly and publicly excoriated Cowper in a published communication to the Royal Society. Before the days of copyright, this is one of the most famous instances of plagiarism in the history of medicine...These plates are considered among the finest illustrations of the Baroque period,..." - Heirs of Hippocrates 667.