WEBER, Moritz Ignaz (1795-1875). Anatomischer Atlas.

WEBER, Moritz Ignaz (1795-1875).  Anatomischer Atlas des Menschlichen Körpers in Naturlicher Große. Lage und Verbindung der Theile: in 84 Tafeln und Erklärendem Texte. Düsseldorf: Verlag von Arnz and Cº., [?1830-44]. Folio (500 x 665mm). Engraved double-page title and 44 double-page lithographed plates ([?]only, of 84, [see note]), comprising plates numbered I – XL, and 4 plates captioned “Erste [Zweite, Dritte, Vierte] Ausserordentliche Supplement Tafel”, 25 of the plates with some hand-colouring (lacks text, some quite heavy staining to title and plates, mainly to lower margins). Contemporary functional black buckram (spine worn, some staining). Provenance: old signature partially erased from front free endpaper; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. Of the two copies of the same work in the National Library of Medicine, Washington D.C., one is recorded as having 45 plates (which may include the engraved title); the other as having 44. Cf. Brunet IV, 709 (citing an edition printed in Dusseldorf in 1834 with the title in French and calling for 84 plates); Engelmann 61; Hirsch-H V, 866. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.