Rare Text Images from the Clendening Library

Via the always stimulating PLEP: Rare Text Images from the Clendening Library:

Reisch, Gregor (d. 1525).
Margarita Philosophica.
Freiburg, Johannes Schottus, 1503.

The Margarita Philosophica (The Philosophical Pearl),
a well known encyclopedia of science,
was a very influential book of the early Renaissance period.
The book was edited by Gregor Reisch, (1467-1525)
a Carthusian monk and prior of the monastery at Freiburg.
Reisch was also confessor to the Emperor Maximilian I.

Bell, John (1763-1820).
The principles of surgery.

Mesmer, Franz Anton (1734-1815).
Lettre d'un Medecin de la Faculte de Paris, A un Medecin du College de Londres.
A la Haye, 1781.

Mesmer promoted his system of treatment, based on his confused doctrine of a
universal magnetic fluidinfluencing tides and men alike,
with books and great personal showmanship.
His treatment became such a popular health care sensation in France
that it was as mucha social movement as a medical practice.

Genga, Bernardino (1655?-1734?)
Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno ricercata
non solo su gl'ossi, e muscoli del corpo humano ma dimostrata
ancora su le statue antiche piu insigni di Roma.
Delineata in piu tavole con tutte le figure in varie faccie, e vedute.

This exhibit displays hundreds of images from medical and natural history texts, most of which were printed before 1800. They are organized by theme: diagnostics, human body, imaging, instruments, physician-patient culture, portraits, public health, reproduction, reproduction instruments, therapeutics. The Clendening Library encourages educational use of the images at no charge. If you wish to use images for publication or commercial purposes, higher quality (300 dpi tiff) images are available for a nominal fee by contacting the Clendening Library.

Osteographica: Historical Anatomies on the Web

Author: Cheselden, William (1688-1752).
Title: Osteographia, or The anatomy of the bones.
Publication Information: London: [William Bowyer], 1733.

While getting up to date on the always excellent, Giornale Nuovo, I clicked through to the National Library of Medicine's Historical Anatomies on the Web.

Images have been selected from the following anatomical atlases in the National Library of Medicine's collection. Each atlas is linked to a brief Author & Title Description, which offers an historical discussion of the work, its author, the artists, and the illustration technique. The Bibliographic Information link provides a bibliographical description of the atlas, so users will know which edition was scanned and if there are any characteristics special to the Library's copy.

There is such a concentration of sublime imagery here (many featured prominently in the Dream Anatomy Online Exhibition) that you could almost choose at random to provide stunning examples. However, a few personal favorites:

Author: Bidloo, Govard (1649 - 1713).
Title: Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams.
Publication Information: Amsterdam: Weduwe van Joannes van Someren, et al., 1690.

Author: Cowper, William (1666-1709).
Title: The anatomy of humane bodies.
Publication Information: Oxford :
Printed at the Theater, for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1698.

Author: Estienne, Charles (ca. 1504-ca. 1564).
Title: De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres.
Publication Information: Paris: Simon Colinaeus, 1545.

Author: Spiegel, Adriaan van (1578-1625) and Casseri, Giulio (ca. 1552-1616).
Title: De formato foetu liber singularis.
Publication Information: Padua: Io. Bap. de Martinis & Livius Pasquatus, [1626].