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A survey of the microcosme, or the anatomy of the bodies of man and woman : wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews, and ligaments thereof are accurately delineated, and so disposed by pasting, as that each part of the said bodies, both inward and outward, are exactly represented. Useful for all doctors, chyrurgeons, statuaries, painters, &c.

by: Remmelin, Johann, 1583-1632

Publication date: 1691

Topics: Human anatomy, Human anatomy

Publisher: London : Printed by James Moxon, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Sign of the Atlas in Warwick-Lane

Collection: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries

Contributor: Wellcome Library

Language: English

Rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark

4 unnumbered leaves, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : folio (38 cm)

Incorrectly attributed to Stephanus Michel Spacher. Cf. Choulant, L. Hist. and bibl. of anatomic ill

The typeset pages are headed: A view of humane bodies. And first the figures B A on the left hand, representing the skin with its vessels or veins under it. - A dissection of humane bodies. Visio prima. - A dissection of the body of man. Visio secunda. - A dissection of the body of a woman. Visio tertia

Catalogued from imperfect copy: lacks plates [1] and [3], i.e. the skin with its vessels or veins, and the dissection of the body of man. Cf. copy of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on Early English Books Online (EEBO)

The first leaf of text following the title page is printed on both sides; all others printed on one side only

Visio I has title 'Accuratissima corporis humani. Descriptio. Inventione Michaelis Spaher, Remelini, atq[ue] aliorum anatomiae peritissimorum. Londini sumptibus J. Moxon.'

With plates showing dissections of male and female bodies, with fugitive sheets

Translation of Remmelin, Johann: Catoptrum microcosmicum

Not in Wing

Notes

Copyright is on title page.
Pages are stained.

All the anatomic illustrations have fold-out parts revealing the organs, circulatory system and bones (in the style of fugitive sheets), which had not been photographed due to conservation reasons.