2 p.l., 66, [1] pp. Small 8vo (180 x 105 mm.), late 19th-century cloth-backed marbled boards, spine gilt. Paris: P. Remy & Musier, 1773.

[bound after]:

([BENARD, —]). Catalogue des Bronzes, Marbres, Porcelaines, Meubles, & autres objets de curiosité. Provenant du Cabinet de M.*** Dont la Vente se fera…le Jeudi 26 Mai 1774, & jour suivans… 9 pp. Small 8vo. Paris: Chariot, 1774. More

xiv, 80 pp., one leaf. Small 4to, cont. paste-paper boards (joints a little worn). Kiel: C.F. Mohr, 1818.

First edition and very rare; WorldCat locates no copy in North America. Johann Daniel Major (1634-93), started the University of Kiel’s anatomical collection shortly after the school’s foundation in 1665. Major wrote the first book on intravenous infusion for anesthetic purposes, in which he described his own experiments. The anatomist and pathologist Johann Leonhard Fischer (1760-1833), who made the establishment of a scientific collection the main concern of his academic activity from 1793 onwards, furnished a foreword to the present book.

Fischer’s student Seidel (1790-1857), lists here 1150 anatomical specimens. More