Facets

1911 –1916

#365

Leonardo da Vinci: Quaderni d’anatomia I-VI. Fogli della Royal Library di Windsor, pubblicati da Ove C.L. Vangensten, A. Fonahn, H. Hopstock. 6 vols.

Leonardo, “the greatest artist and scientist of the Italian Renaissance, was the founder of iconographic and physiologic anatomy” (Garrison). He made over 750 sketches of all the principal organs of the body, drawings…

1920

#7000

The growth and shedding of the antlers of the deer. The histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone.

The first study of the unusual and dramatic physiology of the annual growth and shedding of the antlers of deer. "The amount of bony matter annually secreted to form antlers of the larger deer is enormous, antlers of …

1922 –1931

#7649

Das Leben des Menschen. Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 5 vols.

By developing a new infographics style of illustration in which physiological processes and other technical medical and biological concepts were often depicted as, or compared to machines, Kahn made medical and biolog…

1928

#350

The brain from ape to man: A contribution to the study of the evolution and development of the human brain by Frederick Tilney. With chapters on the reconstruction of the gray matter in the primate brain stem by Henry Alsop Riley. 2 vols.

Classic study of the evolution of the central nervous system in the higher mammals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1934

#6622.1

John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.

Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, but ne…

1945

#9177

Anatomy for artists.

By the famous American social realist artist.

1952

#366

Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.

Includes 215 plates.

1953

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…

1961

#7033

Lectures on the iconography of the Chirurgia of Vidus Vidius and the De dissectione of Estienne and Rivière. Given at the University of California Los Angeles October 1961

"Fifty copies of this collection of papers have beem printed for private circulation." Half title and cover title of the volume: Mannerism and Medical Illustration.

1968

#6916

Molecular pathology of human haemoglobin.

Perutz opened up "the field of 'molecular pathology,' relating a structural abnormality to a disease" (Aaron Klug, "Max Perutz 1914-2002," Science 295 ([2002] 2383). Specifically Perutz showed that hemoglobin molecule…

1969 –1975

#6786.15

The Cole Library of early medicine and zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. 2 parts.

The library of F.J. Cole (see No. 356). Part 1: 1472-1800 to the present day and Supplement to Part 1.

1975

#6610.11

The anatomical works of George Stubbs.

Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).

1980

#366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus Englis…

1982

#6610.16

La curieuse destinée des planches anatomiques de Gerard de Lairese, peintre en Hollande – Lairesse, Bidloo, Cowper.

1983

#12308

Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.

1992

#11214

Georges Cuvier: An annotated bibliography of his published works

1995

#7499

Diseases in wax: A history of the medical moulage.

1995

#11900

Biology takes form: Animal morphology and the German universities 1800-1900.

1999

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

2000

#8680

Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.

2001

#7654

Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

2002

#7271

The primate fossil record.

A comprehensive collaborative study edited by Hartwig. Includes an extensive historical bibliography.

2002

#9078

Aristotle: On the parts of the animals I-IV. Translated with commentary by James G. Lennox.

2004

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

2006

#7423

Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.

Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.

2007

#6977

Anatomy as art: The Dean Edell collection.

Extensively annotated and well-illustrated catalogue of books, prints, sculptures, and anatomical models from the 15th to 20th centuries, written by Jeremy Norman for the auction sale of Dean Edell's library sold at C…

2008

#8308

Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.

2009

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

2011

#10697

Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical world: Language, context and "disegno". Edited by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza.

2012

#10865

Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of primate muscles and human evolution.

1027pp. The most comprehensive review of the comparative anatomy, homologies and evolution of the head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles of primates. The format is unusual with the text occupying the first 134pp.…

2014

#8160

Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.

2017

#8520

Osler Library Prints Collection.

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php "This varied collection of approximately 2,500 prints offers a fascinating look into the history of medicine through popular imagery. The medium of the print, bei…

2019

#14012

Sir William Osler's Leonardo da Vinci collection: Flight, anatomy and art.

2022

#13917

Flesh and bones: The art of anatomy. By Monique Kornell. With contributions by Thisbe Gensler, Naoko Takahatake, Erin Travers.

Chapters by Monique Kornell are: 1. The Illustration of Anatomy, 2. The Living Dead: Animated Anatomy, 3. Arts and Anatomy Books, 4. Anatomy and the Antique, 5. "As Large as Nature": Life Size Anatomical Illustration,…