SALVAGE, Jean-Galibert. Anatomie du gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux-arts, ou traité des os, des muscles, du mécanisme des mouvemens, des proportions et des caractères du corps humains. 1812.
SALVAGE, Jean-Galibert.
Anatomie du gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux-arts, ou traité des os, des muscles, du mécanisme des mouvemens, des proportions et des caractères du corps humains.
Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1812.
Folio (515x383 mm), (6)-iv-64 pages and 22 plates. binding : Middle of nineteen century quarter sheep. Binding rubbed. Large waterstains.Plates cropped on margin and shrter phant the text pages.
First Edition.
Beautifully book illustrated with twenty-two large plates.
Salvage uses several famous classical sculptures for his anatomical subjects.
"The 'Planche d'introduction' and the fifteen plates immediately following it are struck off from two plates so as to bring out the bones in black and the body contours and muscles in red." (Choulant-Frank).
"The effect is striking and the text, engraved along with the plates, was printed in the same manner." (Heirs).
references: Heirs of Hippocrate [1142 : "This rare and beautiful book, with twenty-two large copperplates drawn by the author, uses several well-known classical sculptures for the anatomical subjects. Salvage was a French military surgeon whose studies of classical sculpture led him to the conclusion that the perfection of its execution was such that accurate bone and muscular structure could be illustrated in representations of the sculptures."], Choulant [p.332 : "After many studies, (Salvage) published a most valuable work, which was adopted by the French government for use in the graduate schools, but which seldom appeared in the market and, therefore, is now rare."].
Price : 500 €
