CUSHING PRESENTATION COPY.


CANANO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. 1515-1578. Musculorum Humani Corporis Picturata Dissectio (Ferrara 1541?) Facsimile Edition annotated by Harvey Cushing & Edward C. Streeter. Florence: R. Lier & Co., 1925. 12mo (220 x 167 mm). Publisher's linen backed boards. Small stain to front cover, some pencil notations.Provenance: Thomas B. Futcher; Palmer Futcher (last name penciled on front pastedown).FIRST EDITION TO INCLUDE CUSHING'S ANNOTATIONS, A PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed by Cushing to Thomas B. Futcher, "For T.B.F. from HC. Xmas 1925." Futcher became William Osler's chief resident in 1898, and he and Cushing shared a house during this period. Canano's text was "the first book in which each muscle was illustrated separately, with copper-plates of the bones and muscles of the upper limb from drawings by Girolamo da Carpi" (Garrison-Morton 373). Cushing Bibliography 243.