A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body Accompanied with Descriptions [with a New South Wales & Tasmanian association]

Large, remarkable plates illustrating the human body, skeleton, organs, circulatory, muscular and nervous and lymphatic systems, fetal, respiratory, eyes, internal organs. The plates with tissue guards, most hand colored, engraved by W.H. Lizars. Owners signature on ffep "George Edward Rundle 30th September 1889" plus his bookplate on inside front cover. Rundle [c. 1846 - 1906] was born in Hampshire, England and received his education at the University College, London and Edinburgh University, qualifying in 1873. He first practiced at Hillston, NSW and subsequently at Tenterfield and in Sydney by 1876. In July 1875, he was listed as enrolled on the list of medical practitioners of Tasmania in the Launceston Examiner (29 Jul 1875). He is listed in a government gazette with many degrees including a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1878. After retiring, he became a trustee of the Sydney Museum and a member of the Zoological Society, and for some time, had been president. He died 16 Oct 1906 at 14 Wylde Street, Potts Point. He is buried at Waverley Church of England cemetery. OCLC 338701549 cites 1 copy at the Univ. of York. Folio, 26pp Contents, 101 plates, 241pp text, xxxvi indices, complete. Brown leather and cloth, covers detached but present, spine partially perished. Internally very clean.…