ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani . Leiden: Johan and Herman Verbeek, 1747.
ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani . Leiden: Johan and Herman Verbeek, 1747. Broadsheet 2 o (648 x 490 mm). Engraved title vignette, engraved dedication and 40 engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar including 12 outline plates. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (some light wear, a few repairs). Provenance : Ira M. Rutkow (pencil signature on rear flyleaf). FIRST EDITION. "AMONG THE MOST ARTISTICALLY PERFECT OF ANATOMICAL ATLASES... Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illusion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoceros, sketched by Wandelaar from the first living specimen in Europe, which had arrived at Amsterdam zoo in 1741" (Norman). The plates in this large folio work, and in the four supplementary works in large folio with which it is bound, are unsurpassed for their cool, elegant aesthetic and scientific accuracy. They were drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaer, a pupil of the engravers Jacob Fokema and Guillem van der Gouwen, and the painter Gerard de Lairesse, who prepared the drawings for Bidloo's atlas. Prior to working for Albinus Wandelaer worked for Friedrik Ruysch. Albinus, however, provided Wandelaar with the opportunity for the full expression of his talents as a draftsman and engraver. For many years Wandelaar worked nearly exclusively for Albinus, and lived in Albinus' house, illustrating the long series of books which Albinus produced. Choulant-Frank states that when Wandelaar died Albinus fell into a severe depression, from which he only gradually recovered. The Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body represents the apogee of an exceptional collaboration between physician and artist which lasted from 1721 until the artist's death in 1754, and resulted in a series of unsurpassed publications. Roberts & Tomlinson describe the innovative method that Wandelaar and Albinus devised for the transfer of the most accurate and proportional images of the anatomy to the drawings, using a two nets, or grids, of small cords. The first plates are finished representations of the skeleton and are each accompanied by an outline-plate of the same size. The following 9 plates represent complete finished musclemen, each with an additional outline plate. The 14 plates following these represent special muscles & parts of muscles. Each one of the very numerous figures on these last 14 plates is supplied with an outline-drawing unless the letters are engraved directly upon the finished figures. There are a total of 40 plates. The 3 finished plates of the skeleton and the 9 finished muscle men are some of the most beautiful plates in the history of engraving. Wandelaer placed each figure in a carefully chosen landscape setting, and the artistic results are so pleasantly successful that the anatomical figures, although composed of many separate parts, appear to be actually stepping out of the picture. Choulant-Frank, pp. 276-283; Garrison-Morton 399; Heirs of Hippocrates 831; Norman 29; Sappol, Dream Anatomy , pp.118-119; Wellcome II, p. 26. [ Bound with :] ALBINUS. Tabula vasis chyliferi cum vena azyga ... [Leiden: Verbeek, 1757.] One leaf of explanatory text. Engraved plate (bound after the 8 gravid uterus plates). Choulant-Frank, p.283. [ Also bound with: ] ALBINUS. Tabulae VII. uteri mulieris gravidae cum jam parturiret mortuae . [Leiden: Verbeek, 1748]. 8 engraved plates (bound out of sequence). Choulant-Frank, p.281; Wellcome II, p.26 [ With: ] ALBINUS, Bernard Siegfried (1697-1770). Tabulae ossium humanorum . Leiden: Johan and Herman Verbeek, 1753. Broadsheet 2 o (640 x 4980 mm). Engraved title, engraved leaf of text and 68 engraved plates, including outline plates. 18th-century half calf, marbled boards (some restoration to leather). Provenance : Ira M.
ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani . Leiden: Johan and Herman Verbeek, 1747.
ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani . Leiden: Johan and Herman Verbeek, 1747. Broadsheet 2 o (648 x 490 mm). Engraved title vignette, engraved dedication and 40 engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar including 12 outline plates. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (some light wear, a few repairs). Provenance : Ira M. Rutkow (pencil signature on rear flyleaf). FIRST EDITION. "AMONG THE MOST ARTISTICALLY PERFECT OF ANATOMICAL ATLASES... Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illusion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoceros, sketched by Wandelaar from the first living specimen in Europe, which had arrived at Amsterdam zoo in 1741" (Norman). The plates in this large folio work, and in the four supplementary works in large folio with which it is bound, are unsurpassed for their cool, elegant aesthetic and scientific accuracy. They were drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaer, a pupil of the engravers Jacob Fokema and Guillem van der Gouwen, and the painter Gerard de Lairesse, who prepared the drawings for Bidloo's atlas. Prior to working for Albinus Wandelaer worked for Friedrik Ruysch. Albinus, however, provided Wandelaar with the opportunity for the full expression of his talents as a draftsman and engraver. For many years Wandelaar worked nearly exclusively for Albinus, and lived in Albinus' house, illustrating the long series of books which Albinus produced. Choulant-Frank states that when Wandelaar died Albinus fell into a severe depression, from which he only gradually recovered. The Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body represents the apogee of an exceptional collaboration between physician and artist which lasted from 1721 until the artist's death in 1754, and resulted in a series of unsurpassed publications. Roberts & Tomlinson describe the innovative method that Wandelaar and Albinus devised for the transfer of the most accurate and proportional images of the anatomy to the drawings, using a two nets, or grids, of small cords. The first plates are finished representations of the skeleton and are each accompanied by an outline-plate of the same size. The following 9 plates represent complete finished musclemen, each with an additional outline plate. The 14 plates following these represent special muscles & parts of muscles. Each one of the very numerous figures on these last 14 plates is supplied with an outline-drawing unless the letters are engraved directly upon the finished figures. There are a total of 40 plates. The 3 finished plates of the skeleton and the 9 finished muscle men are some of the most beautiful plates in the history of engraving. Wandelaer placed each figure in a carefully chosen landscape setting, and the artistic results are so pleasantly successful that the anatomical figures, although composed of many separate parts, appear to be actually stepping out of the picture. Choulant-Frank, pp. 276-283; Garrison-Morton 399; Heirs of Hippocrates 831; Norman 29; Sappol, Dream Anatomy , pp.118-119; Wellcome II, p. 26. [ Bound with :] ALBINUS. Tabula vasis chyliferi cum vena azyga ... [Leiden: Verbeek, 1757.] One leaf of explanatory text. Engraved plate (bound after the 8 gravid uterus plates). Choulant-Frank, p.283. [ Also bound with: ] ALBINUS. Tabulae VII. uteri mulieris gravidae cum jam parturiret mortuae . [Leiden: Verbeek, 1748]. 8 engraved plates (bound out of sequence). Choulant-Frank, p.281; Wellcome II, p.26 [ With: ] ALBINUS, Bernard Siegfried (1697-1770). Tabulae ossium humanorum . Leiden: Johan and Herman Verbeek, 1753. Broadsheet 2 o (640 x 4980 mm). Engraved title, engraved leaf of text and 68 engraved plates, including outline plates. 18th-century half calf, marbled boards (some restoration to leather). Provenance : Ira M.
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