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Jacques Benigne Winslow: Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain. Paris: Guillaume Delprez et Jean Desessartz, 1732. 4to. XXX, 740, (8) pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Fly leaf with old owner's stamp (Alexis Julien). Title annotated and with repaired cut out. Bound in cont. full calf, binding with wear and repair.
Winslow's Exposition is distinquished as being the first book on descriptive anatomy to discard physiological details and hypothetical explanations foreign to the subject. (Garrison and Morton: 394 + 1314).
Provenance: Book Collector and Doctor of Medicine Torben Schiødt (1926–2009).
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Books and manuscripts, 12 December 2017
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