COWPER, William (1666-1709)

Los 184
10.12.2025 12:00UTC +00:00
Classic
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
VeranstaltungsortVereinigtes Königreich, London
Aufgeldsee on Website%
ID 1514415
Los 184 | COWPER, William (1666-1709)
Schätzwert
£ 10 000 – 15 000
COWPER, William (1666-1709)
The anatomy of humane bodies: with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe ... and ... engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates ... containing many new anatomical discoveries ... To which is added an introduction explaining the animal oeconomy. Oxford: Printed at the Theater for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, printers for the Royal Society, 1698.
First edition: large paper copy. ‘Cowper obtained 300 impressions of the plates to Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis and republished them under his own name with an expanded text, which included an "Introduction explaining the animal oeconomy", and an index. Cowper also added nine separately numbered plates in an "Appendix, representing the external muscles and divers parts of human bodies...", and pasted his title and his own name as author on a cancel slip over impressions of Bidloo's original engraved title. Bidloo resented Cowper's appropriation of his plates and attacked Cowper in his Guliemus Cowper, criminis literanii citatus (1700)’ (Norman). Norman 529; Wing C6698.

Large folio (640 x 400mm). Text and plates mounted on guards throughout. Mezzotint portrait of the author by John Smith after John Closterman, 2 engraved titles (the first with an engraved overslip with the English title pasted over the original Dutch title in the cartouche), 114 engraved plates numbered 1-105 and 1-9, plate 23 folding (some spotting, dust- and ink-stains throughout, first leaf of dedication with long partly-repaired tear and large ink stains, lower blank margin of plate 62 and accompany leaf of text cut and restored [not affecting engraved area or text] and slightly soiled, large ink stain towards head of final index leaf obscuring some text). Early 20th-century brown morocco-backed brown buckram boards (boards slightly soiled). Provenance: Dr David Forsyth (presented in February 1921 to:) – Royal Society of Medicine (bookplate recording this gift, and ink stamp to verso of portrait, verso of first engraved title and recto of second title).
Adresse der Versteigerung CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
Vereinigtes Königreich
Vorschau
10.12.2025 – 10.12.2025
Telefon +44 (0)20 7839 9060
E-Mail
Aufgeld see on Website
NutzungsbedingungenNutzungsbedingungen

Verwandte Begriffe

× Ein Suchabonnement erstellen