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• Book Title: Leonardo da Vinci. The anatomist 1452 -- 1519
• Author: J. Playfair McMurrich
• ISBN: mw001287432
• Publisher: Balliere ,Tindall and Cox
• Year Published: 1930
• Our Price: £77.00 GBP ($127.05 USD)
• Description: Carnegie Institution of Washington publication number 411 published Balliere ,Tindall and Cox, London 1930: first British edition: blue cloth hardcover with indented decoration and lettering to front: gilt lettering and deco and ration to spine: approximately 7 x 10 inches tall: 265 pages: 89 black and white illustrations, most full-page. Synopsis: An in-depth, scholarly evaluation of Leonardo da Vinci as an anatomist by J. Playfair McMurrich, Professor of Anatomy, University of Toronto. Contents: Chapters entitled:- Anatomy from Galen to Leonardo. Possible literary sources of Leonardo's anatomical knowledge. Fortunes and friends. Leonardo's manuscripts, their reproduction and his projected book. Leonardo's anatomical methods. General anatomy and physiology. Leonardo's canon of proportions. The skeleton. The muscles. The heart. The blood vessels. The organs of digestion. The organs of respiration. The excretory and reproductive organs. The nervous system. This sense organs. Embryology. Comparative anatomy. Botany. Conclusions. Condition: slight discoloration to front cover: edges of front cover slightly rubbed: spine edges rubbed : corners slightly bumped: an occasional fox mark to the preliminary pages: Contents very clean: Overall clean , good, and collectable
• Condition: Collectable- Very Good
• Dustcover: No
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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