Anatomical description of the arteries of the human body : illustrated by several coloured engravings, selected and reduced from the Icones of Haller ; exhibiting the parts as they appear on dissection.

  • Haller, Albrecht von, 1708-1777.
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1813
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Anatomical description of the arteries of the human body : illustrated by several coloured engravings, selected and reduced from the Icones of Haller ; exhibiting the parts as they appear on dissection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston : Printed by Thomas B. Wait and Co. for the proprietor, 1813.

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viii, 1 unnumbered page, 10-156 pages, 15 unnumbered pages, XV leaves of plates (5 folded) : color illustrations (wood engravings) ; 25 cm

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From the last London edition ; corrected and improved.

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The American edition was prepared under the supervision of J. C. Warren, who improved the references to the plates, revised in part the descriptions of the great arteries, and added the general description of the arteries (p. [9]-18) The "division of the arteries" was derived from Bichat. Cf. "Advertisement," signed: John C. Warren
Josiah F. Flagg is named as proprietor in the Massachusetts District copyright statement (slip mounted on verso of title page) Flagg engraved the plates on wood after the steel engravings of the London edition, which was first published in1808 under title: Anatomical plates of the arteries of the human body ... with a concise explanation. It appeared in 1811 under the present title. The plates were reduced copies of selected plates from the Icones anatomicae of Haller
Film 633 reel 47 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 47, no. 857).

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Shaw & Shoemaker 28694
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 857

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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