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The anatomy of the humane body : illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates of the most considerable parts, all done after the life

Cheselden, William, 1688-1752, Nicholls, Sutton · 1713 · London : Printed for N. Cliff, and D. Jackson ..., and W. Innys ... · 17 pictures

An 18th-century anatomy textbook by surgeon William Cheselden with plates engraved by Sutton Nicholls, published in London in 1713 for students and practitioners of medicine. Its copper-plate engravings show dissected organs and vessels drawn with dense parallel hatching, numbered keys and dotted leader lines, a restrained scientific precision a designer could borrow for technical diagrams.

Human anatomy

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