LOT 4169
2nd April 2025

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LOT 4169
MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written book of extensive student notes on a course of eighty-eight lectures on anatomy. N.p.:] October 1822, manuscript, 8vo (240 x 202mm.) Comprising 206pp. in a single legible hand on pre-ruled paper with an ‘1819’ watermark, written mostly recto with 24pp. to rear written verso too, several blank leaves to rear. (Toning.) Contemporary half calf (light rubbed, minor scuffing to spine). Note: while there’s no mention of a particular teacher or university or medical school, the student does refer to many contemporary teachers of anatomy such as Alexander Monroe, John Hunter, William Cooper, Edward Stanley and Percival Pott as well as medical scientists such as Jenner and Haller. These are comprehensive and detailed notes covering bones, the blood, the liver, the eyes, the brain, the veins, the thorax, the pelvis, as well as numerous case studies of accidents and diseases and their treatments. The notes have an immediacy that suggests they were written quickly, but overall the past tense is used so it’s not likely they were written while attending a live autopsy. Provenance: J. Parsons (ink name and address to initial blank).
Estimate: £200 – £300
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