Myographiae Comparatae Specimen: or, a Comparative Description of All the Muscles in a Man, and in a Quadruped. Shewing Their Discoverer, Origin, Progress, Insertion, Use and Difference. To Which is Added an Account of the Muscles Peculiar to a Woman.

James Douglas

Published by Printed by David Gray, for A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1760

About this Item

Original state, 219 p. with many of the pages uncut/unread. Original paper boards has the plain paper over-wrap acting as a dust jacket. Spine paper is completely gone. Owner's inscription on front pastedown. pages foxed and uneven cut - very early binding. Pages loose but still attached. No torn or marked pages noted.Publication date on title page appears to read MDCCI (1701) but upon closer inspection you can see where part of the L was worn off as well as the entire X as there is an indentation in the paper but no ink present. Correct publication date is MDCCLX (1760). Rough shape - see images.

Seller Inventory # 50002102

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Myographiae Comparatae Specimen: or, a Comparative Description of All the Muscles in a Man, and in a Quadruped. Shewing Their Discoverer, Origin, Progress, Insertion, Use and Difference. To Which is Added an Account of the Muscles Peculiar to a Woman.
• Publisher: Printed by David Gray, for A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 1760
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 1 pound
• Seller catalogs:
  • Reference / Engineering / Medical
  • Collectible
  • 16th / 17th / 18th Century