Drake (James). Anthropologia Nova; or, a New System of Anatomy, volume 1 only [of 2], 1st edition, London: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1707, engraved portrait frontispiece, 61 engraved plates (10 folding), closed handling tears to a folding plates (repaired in plates 8 and 9), modern leatherette, 8vo (19.5 x 11.5 cm), together with: [Lebrun-Desmarettes, Jean-Baptiste], Concordia librorum regum et paralipomenon, complectens historiam regum Israel at Juda, 1st edition, Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1691, light browning, old library markings to front endpapers and title page, contemporary French sprinkled tan calf, gilt spine, 4to (24.6 x 18 cm), and 1 other (Qty: 3) Drake: ESTC T63784; Wellcome II p. 485. Sold as seen. 'Not long before [Drake's] death his scientific interests appear to have revived and he wrote Anthropologia Nova, or, A New System of Anatomy. It was said to have been published by his wife, the author and medical practitioner Judith Drake. It was a very popular treatise and ran to three editions in the next twenty years. It is a sad reminder of the great talent that Drake sacrificed to politics' (ODNB).
Drake (James). Anthropologia Nova; or, a New System of Anatomy, volume 1 only [of 2], 1st edition, London: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1707, engraved portrait frontispiece, 61 engraved plates (10 folding), closed handling tears to a folding plates (repaired in plates 8 and 9), modern leatherette, 8vo (19.5 x 11.5 cm), together with: [Lebrun-Desmarettes, Jean-Baptiste], Concordia librorum regum et paralipomenon, complectens historiam regum Israel at Juda, 1st edition, Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1691, light browning, old library markings to front endpapers and title page, contemporary French sprinkled tan calf, gilt spine, 4to (24.6 x 18 cm), and 1 other (Qty: 3) Drake: ESTC T63784; Wellcome II p. 485. Sold as seen. 'Not long before [Drake's] death his scientific interests appear to have revived and he wrote Anthropologia Nova, or, A New System of Anatomy. It was said to have been published by his wife, the author and medical practitioner Judith Drake. It was a very popular treatise and ran to three editions in the next twenty years. It is a sad reminder of the great talent that Drake sacrificed to politics' (ODNB).
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