HALLER, ALBRECHT VON. 1708-1777.


Iconum anatomicarum quibus praecipuae partes corporis humani delineatae continentur. Goettingen: Abram Vandenhoeck (fascicules I-IV), Widow of Abram Vandenhoeck (fascicules V-VIII), 1743-1756. 8 parts in one volume. Folio (469 x 289 mm). 47 engraved plates (some folding). Contemporary calf, rebacked, with old spine label laid down, corners expertly repaired. A few plates torn, some light staining. Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 489); Dean Edell (his sale, Christie's New York, 5 October 2007, lot 79). FIRST EDITION. Published in eight parts, each with a separate title-page, between 1743 and 1756, the complete work contains a total of forty-seven plates by Joel Paul Kaltenhofer (d. 1777), C. J. Rollinus, and others. "The order of the subjects is purely accidental, depending upon the author's occasional necessities of making some accurate dissections of certain organs. Besides the general views of the system of the arteries of the whole body, as given in the last four plates, various other plates represent on a larger scale almost all the arteries of special sites and organs, with the surrounding parts. There will further be found special representations of the diaphragm, the spinal cord, the uterus and its appendages, the omentum, the base of the skull, and the heart" (Choulant-Frank, pp 289-90). Garrison-Morton 397; Heirs of Hippocrates 881; Norman 974; Osler 1153; Roberts & Tomlinson pp 347-356; Waller 4011; Wellcome III, p 198.