TARIN, PIERRE.
Myo-Graphie ou Description des Muscles du Corps Humaine.
Paris, Briasson, printed by Joseph Bullot, 1753. 4to. (2)+172 p. text within printed borders. + 29 engraved plates, the first 9 with accompanying engraved outline plates. Contemp. marbled full calf, spine gilt. Split in lower part of joint. Binding a little worn. Name in ink (Hermann Schwartz stud med et chir 1880/ Ehlers Collegium/ Værelse No. 4) on title. Name in ink on reverse side of the free front endpaper Carl Mule, stud. med et chir. 1910.
¶ First edition of this admirable and informative work on the muscles of the human body. Although 'better known for his Dictionnaire anatomique (1753) and his description of many anatomical structures in the brain' (Heirs of Hippocrates 961), Pierre Tarin (1700-61) also wrote several other books on medicine and the entire section on anatomy in the Encyclopédie. This work has the text in French and Latin on facing pages, and uses closely copied versions of the plates that Jan Wandelaer made for Albinus's work 'Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani' published six years earlier, which source Tarin acknowledges. Waller 9489. NBG 44,880-81. Graesse 7,28.
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