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DESCRIPTION: The Classics of Medicine Library reprint of the 1852 LONDON edition of A MANUAL OF ARTISTIC ANATOMY, FOR THE USE OF SCULPTORS, PAINTERS, AND AMATEURS by ROBERT KNOX, M.D.  THIS IS A SCARCE, ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TO FIND HEIRLOOM MEDICAL CLASSICS EDITION WITH GORGEOUS DEEP GILT IMPRESSIONS TO THE BOARDS, BEAUTIFUL PASTEDOWNS and AMAZING VINTAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS OF THIS VINTAGE CLASSIC OF MEDICINE YOU CAN FIND.  🍍 NOT INCLUDED… 😃 

ABOUT THE BOOK:  Artistic Anatomy is a brief manual, on a matter of national importance, which I now venture to submit to public criticism, is simply the completion of an idea. Entertained by me for nearly a quarter of a cen tury. From the time, indeed, that I first taught anatomy, or rather I ought to say, studied anatomical 'shapes, their import or signification, their relations to each other, and their artistic, philosophic, and utilitarian aspects, I felt convinced, instinctively as it were, that the true relation of anatomy to art, meaning Fine Art, had been mis represented and misunderstood. But it was not until I had visited the galleries of the Louvre, and looked attentively at the Elgin Marbles, that I was in a position to support this view with an appeal to demonstration.

Bell's Bridgewater Treatise on The Hand (1833) generally adheres to the Paleyan model where the nation of “purposeful’ adaptation to the natural development of appendages may be seen throughout the animal world.
(Figu He died on June 3, 1657, at age 79. His last contribution was a book on the growth and development of the young animals entitled "De Generatione Animalium", published in 1651.

CONDITION:  Book is in LIKE NEW condition for its age except for a couple rubs on the gilt page ends and the original attached previous owner’s bookplate (SEE PICS FOR BETTER DETAILS).  It is a GORGEOUS edition.

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